Med trilogin ”Amerikansk pastoral” (1997), ”Gift med en kommunist” (1998) och ”Skamfläcken” (2000) och den fristående ”Konspirationen mot Amerika” (2004) producerade Philip Roth på kort tid fyra romane…
Konsten, livet och kärleken är ledmotiven i Philip Roths Spökskrivaren där Nathan Zuckerman, ung man med författardrömmar, kommer på besök till den åldrande mästerförfattaren Lonoff. För Nathans del har skrivandet lett till en allvarlig konflikt då…
'The work of a genius at full throttle' Sunday TelegraphIt is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced…
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America `Swede' Levov is living the American dream.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece--an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows…
"Philip Roth bekräftar än en gång sin ställning som en av de mest angelägna amerikanska nutidsskildrarna." Blekinge Läns Tidning Inför det amerikanska presidentvalet 1940 fick flygarhjälten och nazistsympatisören Charles A Lindbergh frågan…
När den vida berömde flyghjälten och fanatiske isolationisten Charles A. Lindbergh slog Franklin Roosevelt i en jordskredsseger i presidentvalet 1940 spred sig rädslan i alla judiska hem i Amerika. Lindbergh hade i ett rikstäckande radiouttalande an…
Trots sin judiskhet är Seymor Levov en lång och blond idrottshjälte, med smeknamnet Swede. Hans far är framgångsrik fabrikör i Newark, och den pastorala lyckodrömmen får honom att avstå från en stjärnkarriär som baseballspelare för att i stället gif…
Den heta krigssommaren 1944 drabbas New Jersey av en polioepidemi. Unga människor insjuknar, förlamas, några dör. Invånarna i Newark är förtvivlade. Ingen vet hur sjukdomen sprids, desperationen och ilskan tilltar. Möjliga syndabockar finns plötslig…
Det är 1998, året då USA eggas till vanvett av anklagelserna mot presidenten. I en småstad i New England nalkas livets slut för den tvångspensionerade, vanärade professor Coleman Silk, änklingen vars eget fall speglas i Clinton-affären. Coleman…
Trots att han aldrig lyckats få in en fot hos Mupparna har dockteaterregissören Mickey Sabbath det ganska hyggligt. Det senaste decenniet har han och älskarinnan träffats i sitt kärleksnäste. Men nu vill hon kräva evig trohet från Mickey. Samtidigt…
`In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself... America has not read enough of Philip Roth' Bernard-Henri Levy When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolat…
Radioskådespelaren Iron Rinn är en storvuxen hårding från Newark, ständigt på flykt från en plågsam hemlighet. Han är en idealistisk kommunist, en outbildad grovjobbare som förvandlats till berömd underhållare, en nästan två meter lång Abraham Linco…
The second novel of Roth's eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigg…
With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition. "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented...as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history." --Alfred…
Nathan Zuckerman återvänder till sin hemstad New York efter en självvald isolering i elva år i New England. Medvetet hänvisad till sitt skrivande endast . Inga röster har stört honom, ingen media, inga terroristattacker, inga kvinnor, inga nyheter.…
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt…
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman…
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of h…
If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if you're the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital. But it's easy to put it off. After all, where do you start?…
År 1951, Koreakriget är inne på sitt andra år och Marcus Messner har flytt Newark, New Jersey, för att börja på ett college i Ohio. Han är medvetet långt hemifrån, så långt bort han kan komma från framför allt sin far som tycks ha blivit tokig; toki…
In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn amon…
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a ra…
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the…
"Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge,…
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters…
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award In Operation Shylock, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him,…
Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy, a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In American Pastora…
Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is now in his sixties and has lost his magic, talent, and assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air." When his w…
Professor of Desire follows David Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York. Roth creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and…
An anthology of three major works includes The Great American Novel, a farcical celebration of baseball; My Life as a Man, which follows a tragic marriage of obsessive need; and The Professor of Desire, in which a man ventures into the world of erot…
As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.
A fourth installment of classics features the author's literary alter ego character, Nathan Zuckerman, in a single-volume collection that includes the pieces The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, and The Prague Orgy. 15,000 first…
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fierc…
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol…
`In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself... America has not read enough of Philip Roth' Bernard-Henri LevyWhen the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolati…
Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed into a 155-pound female breast. What follows, in bizarre yet hysterical Kafkaesque fashion, is a touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis…
In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating a cordial accord with Adolf Hitler, accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic po…
In this, the second volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth, published by special arrangement with the author, the range and inventiveness of Roth's fiction is dazzlingly displayed in four extraord…
Den jødisk-amerikanske forfatter Philip Roths (f. 1933) personlige beretning om faderen Herman Roths (1901-1989) to sidste leveår og død som følge af en hjernesvulst, herunder om det nære forhold far og søn im…
A vital survey of 32 internationally recognized artists who make books as part of their creative practice - features 500 images of these rarely seen works.The 'artist's book' has long been an important form of expression, and Artists Who Make Books…
America's most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revi…
For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultur…
Crystalline solar cells based on n-type silicon promise higher energy conversion efficiencies. In order to allow for cost effective production, the present dissertation introduces the concept of co-diffusion, which greatly simplifies production and…
Der bislang so erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Nathan Zuckerman ist in eine Krise geraten. Er leidet unter undefinierbaren Schmerzen und kann nicht mehr schreiben, weil er nichts mehr erlebt. "Um darüber hinwegzukommen, tröstet Zuckerman sich…
Der Radio-Star Iron Rinn und die einstige Hollywood-Größe Eve Frame gelten als Traumpaar, doch in Wirklichkeit ... Nachdem ihre Ehe in Trümmern liegt, schreibt Eve einen Enthüllungs-Bestseller, um ihre eigene Haut und die Karrie…
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why i…
National Bestseller. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by James Schamus. In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pa…
National Bestseller. Now a major motion picture, directed by James Schamus In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastora…
