Böcker av Philip Roth

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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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 romaner som ...

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American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate Americans rise and fallof a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour Swede Levova legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard...

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Trots att han aldrig lyckats få in en fot hos Mupparna har dockteaterregissören Mickey Sabbath det ganska hyggligt. Det senaste decenniet har han och älskarinnan träffats i sitt kärleksnäste. Men nu vill hon kräva evig trohet från Mickey. Samtidig...

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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 frågan om han ...

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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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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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'In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself... America has not read enough of Philip Roth' Bernard-Henri Levy When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isol...

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DISCOVER THE NOVEL BEHIND THE BRILLIANT NEW TV DRAMA 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, ...

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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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Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, "Nemesis" is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. " " Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director...

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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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It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded ...

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The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempt...

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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. Coleman Si...

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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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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 re...

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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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A Moses in reverse and a man whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe is at the center of this meditation on identity.

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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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Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel--the chilling story of what happens to one family when an America elects a charismatic, isolationist president--is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention,...

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An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into t...

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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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Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has been replaced by a paralysing self-consciousness. Overwhelmed, ...

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'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book Review He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humili...

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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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'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerma...

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Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female ...

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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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Trots att han aldrig lyckats få in en fot hos Mupparna har dockteaterregissören Mickey Sabbath det ganska hyggligt. Det senaste decenniet har han och älskarinnan träffats i sitt kärleksnäste. Men nu vill hon kräva evig trohet från Mickey. Samtidig...

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