Patrimony: A True Story (Roth Philip)(Paperback)

Patrimony - A True Story (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son. Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill

Patrimony: A True Story (Roth Philip)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir (San Francisco Chronicle) about a son watching his elderly father battle with the brain tumor that will kill him--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. Patrimony, a true story,

Everyman (Roth Philip)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and 'our most accomplished novelist' (The New Yorker) turns his attention to one man's lifelong skirmish with

Zuckerman Unbound (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Le rabaissement (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Bete Qui Meurt (Roth Philip)(Paperback)

Philip Roth: The Biography (Bailey Blake)(Paperback)

'I don't want you to rehabilitate me,' Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. 'Just make me interesting.' Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and

Human Stain (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

This is the conclusion to Roth's brilliant trilogy of post-war America - a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration. 'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday

Everyman (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Tells an universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. In this novel, the fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into

I Married a Communist (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral.Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star –

American Pastoral - The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker,

Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books (Pierpont Claudia Roth)(Paperback)

A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to

Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Nadel Ira)(Pevná vazba)

This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals. His life encompassed writing some of the most original novels in American literature, publishing

Reading Myself And Others (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American

The Plot Against America (Roth Philip)(Pevná vazba)

Farmageddon - The True Cost of Cheap Meat (Lymbery Philip)(Paperback / softback)

American Pastoral (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

'A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel' The TimesDiscover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede' Levov is living the American

Philip Roth: Why Write? (Loa #300): Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 (Roth Philip)(Pevná vazba)

America's most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revised. Throughout a unparalleled literary career

Ňadro - Philip Roth

David Kepesh, kterého Rothovi čtenáři už znajíjako ústřední postavu románů Profesor touhya Umírající zvíře, se poprvé objevil právě v tétokrátké novele Ňadro. Roth v ní vědomě vytvořiljakousi humornou moderní paralelu ke KafkověProměně. David Kepesh se těší z

Žít jako muž - Philip Roth

Peter Tarnopol, Rothovo alter ego, sepisuje v lesní samotě příběhy ze svého pohnutého života. V povídce „Rozverné mládí“, jež do jisté míry připomíná Rothovu novelu „Sbohem, město C.“, žertovnou formou vypráví o vášnivém vztahu s odvázanou sedmnáctiletou Sharon. A

Prague Orgy (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

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,

Plot Against America (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi

Deception (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book ReviewHe is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling

Ňadro - Philip Roth - e-kniha

eBook:,Působivá satira o neobvyklé proměně David Kepesh, kterého Rothovi čtenáři už znají jako ústřední postavu románů Profesor touhy a Umírající zvíře, se poprvé objevil právě v této krátké novele Ňadro. Roth v ní vědomě vytvořil jakousi humornou moderní paralelu