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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election
...Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into
...ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The American psyche is channeled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best.
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,
...Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil...
He is relentlessly defiant. He is exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's astonishing new novel. Sabbath's Theater tells Mickey's story in the wake of the death of his mistress, an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer,
...7) The humbling
"Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power—the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale—is...
9) Exit Ghost
Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully...
"Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels." —Time
At...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
“Deliciously...
12) The Breast
A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of David Kepesh's metamorphosis—a...
13) Nemesis
14) Indignation
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.
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 he originally enrolled? Because
15) Deception
"This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction." —The New York Times Book Review
With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes—and...
"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius." —The New York Review of Books
In this...