The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing... Zobraziť viac
Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds himself accosted on all sides, the target of admonishers, advisers... Zobraziť viac
Vydavatel: Vintage Počet strán: 176 Rozmery: 13 x 1.2 x 19.8 cm ISBN: 9780099422693 Formát: mäkká väzba - brožovaná (Paperback) Zobraziť viac
CCV: Amazon.co.uk Athena College was snoozing complacently in the Berkshires until Coleman Silk strode in and shook the... Zobraziť viac
Philip Roth´s twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around ... Zobraziť viac
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to... Zobraziť viac
CCV - "'The Plot Against America is an epic built - painstakingly, passionately, near perfectly - of the small structures of the Zobraziť viac
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastor... Zobraziť viac
Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own... Zobraziť viac
Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he quickly makes several connections that explode his carefully... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find themselves... Zobraziť viac
What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel... Zobraziť viac
`Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope... Zobraziť viac
Vydavatel: Vintage Počet strán: 464 Rozmery: 13.1 x 2.9 x 19.9 cm ISBN: 9780099582014 Formát: mäkká väzba - brožovaná (Paper Zobraziť viac
Philip Roth is the voice of our times. In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that... Zobraziť viac
CCV: '...the book's prose is pure Roth, perfect and precise...' --The Times`The Humbling is a stark triptych of breakdown,... Zobraziť viac
CCV: `utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels.' -- Tatler Book Description... Zobraziť viac
How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality? What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake? In The Facts - Philip Roth's... Zobraziť viac
