Böcker av Philip Roth

Med trilogin ”Amerikansk pastoral” (1997), ”Gift med en kommunist” (1998) och ”Skamfläcken” (2000) och den fristående ”Konspirationen mot Amerika” (2004) producerade Philip Roth på kort tid fyra roma...

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It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. It is also the last year of professor Coleman Silk's life, whose own tragic exposure is played out against the background of the Clinton...

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Den heta krigssommaren 1944 drabbas New Jersey av en polioepidemi. Unga människor insjuknar, förlamas, några dör. Invånarna i Newark är förtvivlade. Ingen vet hur sjukdomen sprids, desperationen och ilskan tilltar. Möjliga syndabockar finns plötsl...

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America `Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned b...

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Pulitzer award-winning author Philip Roth's iconic and sensational novel about sex, psychoanalysis and growing up Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpet...

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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 T...

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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....

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Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an...

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Dove, Lipton, Knorr, Ben & Jerry's, and SlimFast are a few of the brands that are part of the $66 billion global empire known as Unilever. When the story opens, one of its divisions is in deep trouble- declining volume, eroding margins, critic...

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Konsten, livet och kärleken är ledmotiven i Philip Roths Spökskrivaren där Nathan Zuckerman, ung man med författardrömmar, kommer på besök till den åldrande mästerförfattaren Lonoff. För Nathans del har skrivandet lett till en allvarlig konflikt d...

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Läs ett provkapitel här Nathan Zuckerman återvänder till sin hemstad New York efter en självvald isolering i elva år i New England. Medvetet hänvisad till sitt skrivande endast . Inga röster har stört honom, ingen media, inga terroristattacker, ...

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`Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand everything...' When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the sloga...

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The second novel of Roth's eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American Pastoral I Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchd...

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In this brilliant short novel, Roth takes us to the Newark neighborhood of his youth and to a secluded summer camp high in the Poconos to tell the moving story of a young playground director trying to protect his charges from the frightening polio...

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Trots sin judiskhet är Seymor Levov en lång och blond idrottshjälte, med smeknamnet Swede. Hans far är framgångsrik fabrikör i Newark, och den pastorala lyckodrömmen får honom att avstå från en stjärnkarriär som baseballspelare för att i stället g...

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.The f...

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This fourth volume of The Library of Americas definitive edition of Roths collected works presents four novels that recount the story of budding American writer Nathan Zuckerman. Includes "The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Less...

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År 1951, Koreakriget är inne på sitt andra år och Marcus Messner har flytt Newark, New Jersey, för att börja på ett college i Ohio. Han är medvetet långt hemifrån, så långt bort han kan komma från framför allt sin far som tycks ha blivit tokig; to...

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Det är 1998, året då USA eggas till vanvett av anklagelserna mot presidenten. I en småstad i New England nalkas livets slut för den tvångspensionerade, vanärade professor Coleman Silk, änklingen vars eget fall speglas i Clinton-affären. Colem...

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Never more relevant than now, this national bestseller will challenge all who believe that "it can't happen here." "A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astoni...

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Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, finds himself involved--as he never wanted or intended to be--with love, mourning, desire, and animosity.

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Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father--famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections--battles with the brain tum...

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Combining the moral seriousness of his American Trilogy with the furious energy he brought to "Sabbath's Theater" and "The Professor of Desire, " Roth performs a virtuosic set of variations on the theme of sexuality and its dis...

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Den heta krigssommaren 1944 drabbas New Jersey av en polioepidemi. Unga människor insjuknar, förlamas, några dör. Invånarna i Newark är förtvivlade. Ingen vet hur sjukdomen sprids, desperationen och ilskan tilltar. Möjliga syndabockar finns plötsl...

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Pulitzer award-winning author Philip Roth s iconic and sensational novel about sex, psychoanalysis and growing upPortnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetu...

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"Philip Roth bekräftar än en gång sin ställning som en av de mest angelägna amerikanska nutidsskildrarna." Blekinge Läns Tidning Inför det amerikanska presidentvalet 1940 fick flygarhjälten och nazistsympatisören Charles A Lindbergh fråg...

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'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Is...

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As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wildernes...

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'Disturbing, logical and very funny... In short, a masterpiece' New York Times Book Review A ferocious political satire in the great tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, Our Gang is Philip Roth's brilliantly acerbic response to the phenomen...

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