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Everyman by Philip Roth
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Everyman by Philip Roth
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$27.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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
Indignation by Philip Roth
$50.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Indignation by Philip Roth
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
Nemesis by Philip Roth
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are p ...Show more
Portnoy's Complaint - Special Archive Edition by Philip Roth
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Blue Ser.
The Facts by Philip Roth
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
"The Facts" is a work of compelling candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from this life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a convention ...Show more
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
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. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Sil ...Show more
The Humbling by Philip Roth
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, 'are melted into air, i ...Show more