Philip Roth at 80 : A Celebration
The Library of America, January 2014. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Philip Roth. More
The Library of America, January 2014. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Philip Roth. More
Random House Inc, January 1996. Paper Back. At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now..... More
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, January 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket gently worn/rubbed; An excellent copy. More
Vintage, April 2007. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and "our most accomplished novelist" (The New Yorker) turns his attention to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. The Facts is an unconventional autobiography. Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the 1930s and '40s; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with..... More
Vintage, May 2001. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral delivers "a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century It..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 1998. Hardcover. 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 emerges from serving in..... More
Vintage, October 2009. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral comes a "mesmerizing [novel that] demands to be read in one sitting. It's that good" (The Seattle Times). A young man begins his sophomore year far from home on the conservative campus of Ohio's..... More
Vintage, September 1997. Trade Paperback. Letting Go is Philip Roth's first full-length novel, published when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa City, Letting Go presents a fictional portrait of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from..... More
Vintage, May 2001. Trade Paperback. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. - "Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece" --The New York Times Book Review In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows..... More
Touchstone Books, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Vintage, June 1996. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - "A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) about a son watching his elderly father battle with the brain tumor that will kill him--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. Patrimony, a true story, touches..... More
Penguin USA, August 2005. Cloth. In this, the second volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth, published by special arrangement with the author, the range and inventiveness of Roth's fiction is dazzlingly displayed in four extraordinarily diverse works. When She Was Good..... More
Library of America, October 2006. Cloth. This third volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America's indispensable novelists. In The Great American Novel (1973), a hilarious..... More
Library of America, September 2017. Hardcover. America's most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revised. Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes..... More
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO@, January 2004. Book Club. Hardcover. Some foxing to outer edge; Front free end-page corner clipped, else VG. More
Houghton Mifflin, September 2004. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), April 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Jacket is price-clipped and shows a bit of edgewear. More