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Goodbye, Columbus
Roth paints a portrait of rural America and two young kids who stumble into a relationship, the odd struggles they go through, the Jewish presence of ...

My Life as a Man
MY LIFE AS A MAN is a book published by Philip Roth in 1974. Peter Tarnopol is a very successful young writer trying to get rid of his psychotic wi...

Operation Shylock
Operation Shylock tells the story of an American Jew author, Philip Roth, who hears that someone has been using his name in Israel to promote the ideo...

Our Gang
OUR GANG is a political satire written in three months by Philip Roth in 1971. Trick E. Dixon is the President of the United States with a little p...

Portnoy's Complaint
This is a story about Alexander Portnoy, a Jewish boy with a big nose and big ego who loves sex. Unfortunately, he was brought up in an extremely str...

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Sabbath's Theater
Roth's writing style is excellent, as is his characterization. In this book Mickey Sabbath, a retired (forced by arthritis) puppeteer, remembers his ...



The Dying Animal
David Kepesh is in his sixties, a professor at a New York college and TV culture critic when he becomes sexually obsessed with 24-year-old Consuela Ca...

The Ghost Writer
THE GHOSTWRITER has been published in 1979. Nathan Zuckerman is a young American writer who's just published three successful novelettes. He sends ...

The Great American Novel
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL is a book published by Philip Roth in 1973. This is the sad story of the Ruppert Mundys, a baseball team of the mythical P...

The Human Stain
Narrator Nathan Zuckerman, a successful writer, has retired to the Berkshires near the small New England college of Athena, and becomes friendly with ...

The Plot Against America
In "The Plot Against America," Roth returns to a pivotal point in American history, alters the outcome, and revises his life story accordingly. The c...

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The Professor of Desire
THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE is a novel published in 1977. David Kepesh is a professor of literature obsessed by the idea of Desire, in novels as well a...

When She Was Good
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Zuckerman Unbound
ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND is a novel published in 1981. Nathan Zuckerman is now a reknown writer; his fourth novel, Carnovsky, has become a bestseller and ...

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