Valis (Vintage)
Vintage, July 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, July 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, August 1996. Trade Paperback. As much as he wants to be the Marquis de Sade, he is not. As much as he wants to be seventeen, he is not. As much as he wants to be dead, he is not. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose..... More
Random House Inc, July 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Random House, 1969. Reprint. Cloth. Dustjacket is missing. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Black cloth covered boards with slightly worn gold lettering along spine edge and author's initials in gold front board lower right corner. Sticker residue ffep upper right. Slightly leaning spine. Red tinted top textblock edge..... More
Vintage, September 2005. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The chilling bestselling alternate history novel of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president whose government embraces a folksy anti-Semitism--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. "A terrific political novel.... Sinister, vivid, dreamlike...You turn the pages..... 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
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2009. Hardcover. Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and..... More
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, January 2008. Trade Paperback. 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
Holt Rinehart and Winston, January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House..... More
Vintage Books, January 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Library of America, February 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. The Dying Animal (2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977). Now an eminent cultural..... More
Library of America, February 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate Nemeses, the quartet of thematically related short novels that are published here together for the first time in..... 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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse--by..... More
Waywiser Press, February 2009. Paper Back. An exciting new collection of in-depth interviews with seven important American poets. Interviewees include Ashbery. Hall, Hecht. Justice, Simic. Snodgrass, and Wilbur. An informative, entertaining, candid and occasionally surprising panopticon of a book. More
Vintage, March 1994. Trade Paperback. Professor of Desire follows David Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York. Roth creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. In the stifling heat of equatorial Newark, a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death. This is the startling theme of Philip Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio..... More
Random House Inc, May 1995. Trade Paperback. In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities..... More
Mandarin, January 1996. Paper Back. Cocked spine. Some pencil notes. More
HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tightly bound spine with some slight leaning. Previous owner's name inked front free end pages [482 pages]. More
Vintage, October 2009. Trade Paperback. National Bestseller. Now a major motion picture, directed by James Schamus! In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College..... More
Oxford University Press, December 2010. Hardcover. In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959)..... More
Penguin Books, August 1992. Trade Paperback. More