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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
Artists Who Make Books by Andrew Roth (Editor); Philip E. Aarons (Editor); Claire Lehmann (Editor)
150.00 AUD
Category: Art
A vital survey of 32 internationally recognized artists who make books as part of their creative practice - features 500 images of these rarely seen works. The 'artist's book' has long been an important form of expression, and Artists Who Make Books showcases 32 internationally recognized artists who h ...Show more
Deception: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2022 by Philip Roth
19.95 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
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
22.95 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
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
45.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | 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
Indignation by Philip Roth
22.99 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
Letting Go by Philip Roth
19.95 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.
My Life As a Man by Philip Roth
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants t ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
35.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
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
19.99 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