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Philip Roth
Philip Roth's brilliant career was launched when the unknown twenty-five-year-old writer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a collection that was to be called Goodbye, Columbus, and which, in turn, captured the 1960 National Book Award. In the famous title story, perhaps the best college love story ever written, Radcliffe-bound Brenda Patimkin initiates Neil Klugman of Newark into a new and unsettling
...3) Indignation
"High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges ... as a Dreiser who can write!" —Stanley Elkin
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she...
6) Everyman
Gripping. . . . A masterly, often unnerving blend of tenderness, harshness, insight, and wit." —The New York Times Book Review
"A bitter, often funny, always engrossing story. . . . The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected." —The New York Review of Books
"Philip Roth is an amazing writer. . . . I Married a Communist may very well become his classic work; perhaps
..."[A] disturbing masterpiece." —New York Review of Books
"Powerful...Roth's narrator newly illuminates the American body, the American soul, the life of loving and the love of life that has always been so all-consuming in his fiction." — Chicago Tribune
The final, incendiary Kepesh novel and the unforgettable story of an affair between a star lecturer at a New York college and the beautiful
...10) Nemesis
11) The humbling
13) Exit ghost
Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully...
"One of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius." -The New York Review of Books
"A brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -The Nation
"The uncontested master of comic irony." -Time
"Diabolically clever, engaging. . . . [A] white-water unstoppable narrative. . . . Roth is so spelndidly convincing. . . that the result is kind of a
...16) Our Gang
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who...
