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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
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Divergent 2 | Reading Level: very good
#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's second book in the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature. As war and unrest surge in the factions all around her, Tris Prior ...Show more
Insurgent (#2 Divergent Series 10th Anniversary Edition) by Veronica Roth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Divergent Trilogy
Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope. The thrillingly dark sequel to No. 1 New York Times bestseller, DIVERGENT. I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has ...Show more
Job by ROTH JOSEPH
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
One man's faith is tested, lost and restored in this gem of a novel by 20th century Jewish Austrian writer Joseph Roth. Mendel Singer, a Jewish-Orthodox schoolteacher, lives in early 20th century Galicia. A modern-day Job, he is subjected to one misfortune after another. As a result of these terrible tr ...Show more
Job: The Story of a Simple Man by Joseph Roth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A taut fable and one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, which follows pious and god-fearing Job from the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving streets of New York.
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest. Occasionally a collection of letters appears that is so extraordinary in its biographical detail ...Show more
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from his schoolboy years to the veteran of 44, marked by war, poverty, alcoholism, the loss of his wife through madness, and ...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.
Mercy of a Rude Stream - The Complete Novels by Henry Roth; Joshua Ferris (Introduction by)
$50.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his late eighties, shocked the literary world with the announcement that he had written a second novel. It was called, he reported, Mercy of a Rude Stream, the title ins ...Show more
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
Nemesis by Philip Roth
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and di ...Show more
On the End of the World by Joseph Roth; Will Stone (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A powerful collection written on the eve of the destruction of Europe by the Second World War, by the great Joseph Roth Having fled to Paris in January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth wrote a series of articles in that 'hour before the end of the world', that he for ...Show more