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Indignation
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38891-9 (0-307-38891-3)
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 pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38891-9 (0-307-38891-3)
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 pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?... Read more >
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large print trade paperback.
Exit Ghost
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38729-5 (0-307-38729-1)
Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series.
Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38729-5 (0-307-38729-1)
Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series.
Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age... Read more >
Also available in
large print trade paperback.
Indignation
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2811-8 (0-7393-2811-5)
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Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2811-8 (0-7393-2811-5)
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trade paperback.
The Dying Animal (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45488-1 (0-307-45488-6)
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Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45488-1 (0-307-45488-6)
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Exit Ghost
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2756-2 (0-7393-2756-9)
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Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2756-2 (0-7393-2756-9)
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trade paperback.
Everyman
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27771-8 (0-307-27771-2)
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27771-8 (0-307-27771-2)
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced... Read more >
The Plot Against America
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7949-0 (1-4000-7949-7)
Philip Roth asserts his enduring stature as our most ambitious and inventive writer with this stunning new novel, which re-imagines American history and traces its ominous impact on one Jewish family.
In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding"... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7949-0 (1-4000-7949-7)
Philip Roth asserts his enduring stature as our most ambitious and inventive writer with this stunning new novel, which re-imagines American history and traces its ominous impact on one Jewish family.
In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding"... Read more >
Shop Talk
A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71413-9 (0-375-71413-8)
In Philip Roth’s intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer’s highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.
With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the... Read more >
A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71413-9 (0-375-71413-8)
In Philip Roth’s intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer’s highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.
With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the... Read more >
The Dying Animal
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71412-2 (0-375-71412-X)
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 fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71412-2 (0-375-71412-X)
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 fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired... Read more >
Our Gang
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72684-2 (0-375-72684-5)
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth’s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72684-2 (0-375-72684-5)
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth’s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who... Read more >
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Reading Myself and Others
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74907-3 (0-679-74907-1)
The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work, including Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, and My Life as a Man; on the... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74907-3 (0-679-74907-1)
The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work, including Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, and My Life as a Man; on the... Read more >
The Human Stain
A Novel
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72634-7 (0-375-72634-9)
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
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 racist... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72634-7 (0-375-72634-9)
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
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 racist... Read more >
I Married a Communist
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70721-6 (0-375-70721-2)
A New York Times Notable Book
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral, 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... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70721-6 (0-375-70721-2)
A New York Times Notable Book
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral, 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... Read more >
American Pastoral
A Novel
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70142-9 (0-375-70142-7)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our 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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70142-9 (0-375-70142-7)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our 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... Read more >
Letting Go
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76417-5 (0-679-76417-8)
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in the 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76417-5 (0-679-76417-8)
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in the 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions... Read more >
Deception
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 1, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75294-3 (0-679-75294-3)
At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversations--mainly... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 1, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75294-3 (0-679-75294-3)
At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversations--mainly... Read more >
The Facts
A Novelist's Autobiography
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74905-9 (0-679-74905-5)
The Facts is an unconventional autobiography. Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the 1930s and '40s; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with the angriest person he ever met (the "girl of my... Read more >
A Novelist's Autobiography
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74905-9 (0-679-74905-5)
The Facts is an unconventional autobiography. Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the 1930s and '40s; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with the angriest person he ever met (the "girl of my... Read more >
The Counterlife
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74904-2 (0-679-74904-7)
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74904-2 (0-679-74904-7)
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse... Read more >
Sabbath's Theater
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77259-0 (0-679-77259-6)
Winner of the National Book Award
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. After the death of his long-time mistress, Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77259-0 (0-679-77259-6)
Winner of the National Book Award
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. After the death of his long-time mistress, Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his... Read more >
Patrimony
A True Story
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75293-6 (0-679-75293-5)
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his 86-year-old father--famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections--battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father... Read more >
A True Story
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75293-6 (0-679-75293-5)
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his 86-year-old father--famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections--battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father... Read more >
The Anatomy Lesson
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74902-8 (0-679-74902-0)
The Anatomy Lesson, the third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic, Hermione Lee, has described as "a manner at once...brash and thoughtful... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority." Nathan Zuckerman... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74902-8 (0-679-74902-0)
The Anatomy Lesson, the third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic, Hermione Lee, has described as "a manner at once...brash and thoughtful... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority." Nathan Zuckerman... Read more >
The Prague Orgy
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74903-5 (0-679-74903-9)
The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among outcast artists, completes Roth's masterful trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art. This Vintage edition is the first paperback publication of... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74903-5 (0-679-74903-9)
The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among outcast artists, completes Roth's masterful trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art. This Vintage edition is the first paperback publication of... Read more >
The Ghost Writer
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74898-4 (0-679-74898-9)
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, E.I. Lonoff. The first volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74898-4 (0-679-74898-9)
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, E.I. Lonoff. The first volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The... Read more >
Zuckerman Unbound
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74899-1 (0-679-74899-7)
In Zuckerman Unbound--the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound--the notorious novelist Nathan Zuckerman retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother, all of this amidst the tumult of the late 1960s and his... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74899-1 (0-679-74899-7)
In Zuckerman Unbound--the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound--the notorious novelist Nathan Zuckerman retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother, all of this amidst the tumult of the late 1960s and his... Read more >
The Great American Novel
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74906-6 (0-679-74906-3)
In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.
"Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick... An... Read more >
Written by Philip Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74906-6 (0-679-74906-3)
In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.
"Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick... An... Read more >
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