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American Pastoral by Philip Roth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
"Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s ...Show more
Deception: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2022 by Philip Roth
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A famous writer, named Philip, and his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. "Deception", Philip Roth's most poignant and provocative work since Portnoy's "Complaint", explores adultery and the unmasking of illicit lovers in a n ...Show more
Everyman by Philip Roth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling 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 R ...Show more
Everyman by Philip Roth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first sho ...Show more
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks ot ...Show more
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple wit ...Show more
Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Philip 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 and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor ...Show more
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America's reigning radio actress and silent movie star, Eve Frame. However, both his marriage and his life collapse.
Indignation by Philip Roth
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form. 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 ...Show more
Indignation by Philip Roth
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 is he there and not at the local college in Newark where ...Show more
Letting Go by Philip Roth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in Chicago in the fifties, rich with characters and magnificently detailed, "Letting Go" chronicles an era when men and women were still constrained by the dictates of custom, community and family.
Nemesis by Philip Roth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed ...Show more