In the balance of personal, domestic and national events, the novel is one of Roth's most deft creations....Roth's writing has never been so direct and accessible while retaining its stylistic precision and acute insights into human f...

Iron Rinn (ne Ira Ringold) is a self-educated radio actor, married to a spoilt, rags-to-riches beauty, silent-film star Eve Frame (nee Chave Fromkin). He is a Communist, and a 'sucker for suffering,' locked into the cycle of violenc...

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...

...it should be emphasized that 'When She Was Good', both in its sustained theme and its detail work, is a step in class above most recent novels: up on the edge, in fact, where stringent standards set in. Roth is a serious writer, wi...

Philip Roth's perennial character (first introduced in THE BREAST, then appearing in THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE) David Kepesh is the narrator of THE DYING ANIMAL, which finds an aging Kepesh still obsessed with sex, still longing for you...

Philip Roth's 27th novel begins at its unnamed protagonist's funeral, then leaps back in time to various moments of injury and deterioration (a childhood hernia, a burst appendix, heart failures of various kinds, the sad end of friend...

Roth’s debut book, a novella and short stories about Jews in contemporary America, won a National Book Award in 1959 and established him as an important writer. While his insight into the Jewish-American experience won him a lar...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIndignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history. It is a novel that highlights his masterful ability to re-create a time and a place and to populate...

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. Why is he here? Because his father, a hard-working...

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness i...

In a bittersweet new novel by the author of Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint, a ditchdigger rises to prominence in the 1940s as a radio star and is betrayed by his new wife, silent film star Eve Frame, who outs him as a Commu...

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 Falstaf...

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes.' Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of c...

The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.Philip Ro...

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domest...

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. Why is he here? Because his father, a hard-working...

Mickey Sabbath, an aging, misanthropic puppeteer, embarks on a journey into his checkered past when his long-time mistress dies. His journey turns into succession of disasters. And while Sabbath wants to die, he still has too much lif...

Like a latter-day, Gregor Smasa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has be...

"With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes — and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that...

Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-ce...

At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so pe...

At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so pe...

Gil 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 homerun sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the Ruppert...

Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel--the chilling story of what happens to one family when an America elects a charismatic, isolationist president--is soon to be an HBO limited series.In an extraordinary feat of narrativ...

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domest...

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness i...