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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
Everyman by Philip Roth
23.95 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
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
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.
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
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
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013 by Philip Roth
59.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Tracing the full span of Philip Roth's career - from the early controversies surrounding the stories in Goodbye, Columbus to his recent assessments of his work and corrections of the record - this retrospective summation of his essays and interviews shows at every turn the vigour, acuity, and persuasive ...Show more
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
22.99 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
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets ...Show more
The Great American Novel by Philip Roth
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gill Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, 'The Babe Ruth of the Big House', who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them - or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history - it's be ...Show more