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A Writer at Work by Philip Roth & Volker Hage
$27.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
This rare collection of recent interviews with Philip Roth and portraits of the man and his work is now available in English for the first time. In language which is honest, clear and direct, Philip Roth speaks openly of his views on a wide range of topics - US politics, Iraq, Vietnam, George Bush, the ...Show more
Deception: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2022 by Philip Roth
$14.25 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A famous writer, named Philip, and his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. "Deception", Philip Roth's most poignant and provocative work since Portnoy's "Complaint", explores adultery and the unmasking of illicit lovers in a n ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
$19.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and di ...Show more
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
$16.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet - his father.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
$19.95 AUD
Category: General 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
SHOP TALK by Philip Roth
$24.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Features a diverse cast of writers who explore the importance of region, politics, and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualised art is informed by the wider conditions of life. This work concludes with the authors essay "Rereading Saul Bellow", a pre ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
$14.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel--the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president--is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. ...Show more
The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
$14.25 AUD
Category: General Fiction
David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is a ...Show more
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