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Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
19.95 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. This work is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern; Philip Roth (Introduction by); Wendy Doniger (Afterword by)
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked o ...Show more
Our Gang by Philip Roth
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gangis Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of ...Show more
PRAGUE ORGY,THE by ROTH PHILIP
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalised oppression, that ...Show more
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet - his father.
Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Blue
The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portn ...Show more
Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: wh ...Show more
Reading Myself and Others by Philip Roth
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth ...Show more
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bere ...Show more
The Breast by Philip Roth
20.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Like some latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a funny yet touching exploration of sex and sub ...Show more