Roth, Philip
Overview
| Works: | 849 works in 5,750 publications in 29 languages and 163,918 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Psychological fiction Domestic fiction Humorous fiction Historical fiction Political fiction History Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography |
| Roles: | Author, Narrator, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Other, Creator, Contributor, Interviewer, Actor, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Director, Editor |
| Classifications: | PS3568.O855, 813.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Philip Roth
- Patrimony : a true story by Philip Roth( Book )
- The facts : a novelist's autobiography by Philip Roth( Book )
- Operation Shylock : a confession by Philip Roth( Book )
- Reading myself and others by Philip Roth( Book )
- City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970 by Tony Tanner( Book )
- Philip Roth by Bernard F Rodgers( Book )
- Philip Roth by Judith Hillman Paterson( Book )
- The fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike by George J Searles( Book )
- Philip Roth studies( )
- Elegy by Isabel Coixet( Visual )
- Philip Roth by Harold Bloom( Book )
- Roth Unbound : a writer and his books by Claudia Roth Pierpont( Book )
- Philip Roth revisited by Jay L Halio( Book )
- Philip Roth : new perspectives on an American author by Derek Parker Royal( Book )
- Philip Roth's rude truth : the art of immaturity by Ross Posnock( Book )
- Philip Roth and the Jews by Alan Cooper( Book )
- Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth by Elaine B Safer( Book )
- Star authors : literary celebrity in America by Joe Moran( Book )
- In history's grip : Philip Roth's Newark trilogy by Michael Kimmage( Book )
- Philip Roth by David Brauner( Book )
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Philip Roth
Portnoy's complaint by
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363 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in 15 languages and held by 4,984 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Along with Saul Bellow's Herzog, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint defined Jewish American literature in the 1960s. Roth's masterpiece takes place on the couch of a psychoanalyst, an appropriate jumping-off place for an insanely comical novel about the Jewish American experience. Roth has written several great books--Goodbye, Columbus and When She Was Good among them, but it is perhaps Portnoy's Complaint for which he is best known
363 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in 15 languages and held by 4,984 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Along with Saul Bellow's Herzog, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint defined Jewish American literature in the 1960s. Roth's masterpiece takes place on the couch of a psychoanalyst, an appropriate jumping-off place for an insanely comical novel about the Jewish American experience. Roth has written several great books--Goodbye, Columbus and When She Was Good among them, but it is perhaps Portnoy's Complaint for which he is best known
The plot against America by
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99 editions published between 1942 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 4,539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family-and for a million such families all over the country-during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst
99 editions published between 1942 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 4,539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family-and for a million such families all over the country-during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst
American pastoral by
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145 editions published between 1997 and 2017 in 13 languages and held by 4,402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater
145 editions published between 1997 and 2017 in 13 languages and held by 4,402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater
The human stain by
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140 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in 9 languages and held by 4,219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public
140 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in 9 languages and held by 4,219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public
Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories by
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215 editions published between 1957 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 4,100 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Radcliffe girl and a Rutgers boy learn about love in Goodbye, Columbus
215 editions published between 1957 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 4,100 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Radcliffe girl and a Rutgers boy learn about love in Goodbye, Columbus
Everyman by
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95 editions published between 2006 and 2016 in 10 languages and held by 3,585 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him, He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be." From the bookjacket
95 editions published between 2006 and 2016 in 10 languages and held by 3,585 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him, He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be." From the bookjacket
Nemesis by
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98 editions published between 2010 and 2015 in 16 languages and held by 3,427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
98 editions published between 2010 and 2015 in 16 languages and held by 3,427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
Indignation by
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97 editions published between 2008 and 2017 in 10 languages and held by 3,425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad--mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.--From publisher's description
97 editions published between 2008 and 2017 in 10 languages and held by 3,425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad--mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.--From publisher's description
Zuckerman unbound by
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86 editions published between 1981 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 3,331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Zuckerman, dogged by personal neuroses and ill-health, has to contend with a tough television celebrity, who accuses him of plagiarising his personal life, whilst watching his father's terminal illness move towards its sad conclusion
86 editions published between 1981 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 3,331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Zuckerman, dogged by personal neuroses and ill-health, has to contend with a tough television celebrity, who accuses him of plagiarising his personal life, whilst watching his father's terminal illness move towards its sad conclusion
The ghost writer by
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112 editions published between 1979 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 3,220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff
112 editions published between 1979 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 3,220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff
Exit ghost by
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89 editions published between 2006 and 2015 in 9 languages and held by 3,214 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
After 11 years of isolation in his New England mountain refuge, Zuckerman returns to New York City and makes three important connections that threaten his carefully protected sense of isolation
89 editions published between 2006 and 2015 in 9 languages and held by 3,214 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
After 11 years of isolation in his New England mountain refuge, Zuckerman returns to New York City and makes three important connections that threaten his carefully protected sense of isolation
The counterlife by
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101 editions published between 1986 and 2015 in 7 languages and held by 2,936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Stories of people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, ranging from a quiet suburban New Jersey dentist to a genteel Englishwoman and an Israeli settlement leader
101 editions published between 1986 and 2015 in 7 languages and held by 2,936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Stories of people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, ranging from a quiet suburban New Jersey dentist to a genteel Englishwoman and an Israeli settlement leader
The humbling by
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72 editions published between 2009 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking end
72 editions published between 2009 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking end
The great American novel by
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95 editions published between 1973 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,740 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the "Great American Novel" and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories
95 editions published between 1973 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,740 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the "Great American Novel" and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories
Sabbath's theater by
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96 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in 11 languages and held by 2,738 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The life of an old man who lives for sex. He is Morris Sabbath, 64, a New York puppeteer who made his name with lewd performances. Feeling death approaching, he relives his many amorous adventures in graphic detail. By the author of Portnoy's Complaint
96 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in 11 languages and held by 2,738 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The life of an old man who lives for sex. He is Morris Sabbath, 64, a New York puppeteer who made his name with lewd performances. Feeling death approaching, he relives his many amorous adventures in graphic detail. By the author of Portnoy's Complaint
The professor of desire by
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116 editions published between 1977 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 2,709 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
David Kapesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possiblities
116 editions published between 1977 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 2,709 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
David Kapesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possiblities
My life as a man by
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115 editions published between 1970 and 2014 in 10 languages and held by 2,614 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains three stories: an autobiographical narrative told by the author Peter Tarnopol and two of Peter's stories, "Useful Fictions."
115 editions published between 1970 and 2014 in 10 languages and held by 2,614 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains three stories: an autobiographical narrative told by the author Peter Tarnopol and two of Peter's stories, "Useful Fictions."
When she was good by
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112 editions published between 1966 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 2,464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitiless and compassionate
112 editions published between 1966 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 2,464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitiless and compassionate
I married a communist by
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84 editions published between 1998 and 2015 in 9 languages and held by 2,325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During the McCarthy era, a wife revenges herself on her husband by denouncing him as a Communist. It happens to Iron Rinn, a radio commentator, after he told her he did not want her daughter in the house
84 editions published between 1998 and 2015 in 9 languages and held by 2,325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During the McCarthy era, a wife revenges herself on her husband by denouncing him as a Communist. It happens to Iron Rinn, a radio commentator, after he told her he did not want her daughter in the house
Our gang : (starring Tricky and his friends) by
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79 editions published between 1971 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 2,166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A ferocious political satire. Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. 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 doesn't have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public
79 editions published between 1971 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 2,166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A ferocious political satire. Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. 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 doesn't have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public
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Related Identities
- Zuckerman, Nathan (Fictitious character)
- Kepesh, David (Fictitious character)
- Updike, John Interviewee Narrator
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1902-1974
- Miller, Ross Annotator Collector Editor Commentator for written text
- Guidall, George Narrator
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994
- Roth family
- Halio, Jay L. Author Editor
- Vonnegut, Kurt
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Actors African American men Aging American fiction Antisemitism Baseball teams Bombings College teachers Domestic fiction England--London Families Fathers and daughters Israel Jewish businesspeople Jewish college students Jewish families Jewish men Jews Kepesh, David--(Fictitious character) Lindbergh, Charles A.--(Charles Augustus), Male authors Manners and customs Married people Middle-aged men Middle West Mothers and sons New Jersey New Jersey--Newark New York (State)--New York Nineteen fifties Novelists Novelists, American Ohio Passing (Identity) Playgrounds Poliomyelitis Presidents Presidents--Election Psychological fiction Roth, Philip Roth family Scandals Self-actualization (Psychology) Self-realization Sex addicts Social conditions United States Updike, John Young men Zuckerman, Nathan (Fictitious character)
Alternative Names
Filip Ras
Filips Rots
Philip Roth americký romanopisec
Philip Roth Amerikaans schrijver
Philip Roth amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Philip Roth amerikansk författare
Philip Roth amerikansk skribent
Philip Roth écrivain américain
Philip Roth escritor estadounidense de origen judío, conocido sobre todo por sus novelas, aunque también ha escrito cuentos
y ensayos
Philip Roth novel·lista estatunidenc
Philip Roth novelista estadounidense
Philip Roth pisarz amerykański
Philip Roth romancier american
Philip Roth scrittore statunitense
Philip Roth US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Philip Roth usona verkisto
Philippus Roth
Rās̱, Fīlīp
Rot, Filip.
Rot, Filip 1933-
Rot, Filip 1933-2018
Roth, Philip
Roth, Philip 1933-
Roth, Philip Milton
Roth, Philip Milton 1933-
Roth, Philip Milton 1933-2018
Rots, Filips 1933-
Rʺut, Bhilip
Φίλιπ Ροθ Αμερικανός συγγραφέας
Рот Ф
Рот Ф. 1933-
Рот Ф. М
Рот Ф. М. 1933-
Рот, Филип
Филип Рот
Філіп Рот
פיליפ ראטה
פיליפ רות
פיליפ רות מחבר רומנים אמריקאי
רות, פיליפ
רות, פיליפ 1933-
راث، فيليپ
فلپ روتھ
فيليب روث
فيليب روث، 1933-
فيليب روث روائي أمريكي
فیلیپ راث نویسنده آمریکایی
ميلتون، فيليب روث، 1933-
फिलिप राथ
ফিলিপ রথ্
ফিলিপ রথ্ মার্কিন ঔপন্যাসিক
ਫਿਲਪ ਰੋਥ
ฟิลิป รอธ
ფილიპ როტი
로드, 필립 1933-
로스, 필립 1933-
로스, 필립 밀턴 1933-
로오드, 필립 1933-
필립 로스
フィリップ・ロス
フィリップロス
ロス, フィリップ
菲利普·罗斯
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Spanish (238)
German (186)
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