Philip Roth

Brilhante e despudorado, este romance de Phillip Roth apresenta ao leitor o sexagenário Mickey Sabbath, artista de fantoches aposentado. Desempregado, sujo e trapaceiro, ele arrasta o leitor para o seu labirinto de adultério e morte. No auge da carreira, Roth realiza uma façanha de virtuosismo dramático. Entre as …

Philip Roth apresenta uma novela protagonizada pelo personagem surgido em 1973, na novela 'O seio', e retomado em 1977 no romance 'O professor de desejo'. 'O animal agonizante' e a historia de David Kepesh, professor aposentado que faz sucesso com um programa cultural na televisao e que todos os anos oferece um curso …

Nemesis is a novel by Philip Roth published on 5 October 2010, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is Roth's 31st book, "a work of fiction set in the summer of 1944 that tells of a polio epidemic and its effects on a closely knit Newark community and its children." In 2012, Philip Roth told an interviewer that Nemesis …

Operation Shylock: A Confession is novelist Philip Roth's 19th book and was published in 1993.

The saga of Henry and Nathan Zuckerman continues, 13 years after novelist Nathan Zuckerman first appeared in Roth's 1974 effort, My Life as a Man. In The Counterlife, the dentist Henry suffers an unsettling--and for Roth, a predictable--side effect to his heart medication: impotence, which leads him to undergo an …

Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is now in his sixties and has lost his magic, talent, and assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, “are melted into air, into thin air.” When his wife leaves him, and after a stint at a mental hospital, he retires to …

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, 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 become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching …

Patrimony: A True Story is a memoir by American writer Philip Roth. It was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1991.

Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky, but he also finds himself the target …

The Great American Novel is a novel by Philip Roth, published in 1973.