Philip Roth

Ironico e dissacrante, Alex Portnoy ripercorre sul divano dell'analista le ossessioni morbose della sua vita, in un racconto esilarante del conflitto tra...

Ex scaricatore di porto e battagliero attivista sindacale, Ira Ringold diventa agli albori della guerra fredda un astro nascente della radio...

Quando l'eroe dell'aviazione Charles A. Lindbergh, fervido antisemita e filonazista, sconfigge alle elezioni presidenziali Franklin D. Roosevelt...

David Kepesh, stimato critico letterario e docente universitario, da anni professa attivamente la sua fede nella liberazione sessuale...

"Lo Svedese" è un soprannome magico al liceo di Newark, New Jersey. Appartiene a Seymour Levov, il ragazzo che tutti vorrebbero essere. Alto, biondo...

Coleman Silk, professore di lettere classiche all'Athena College, da cinquant'anni nasconde un segreto. Un giorno però, a pochi anni dalla...

Patrimony touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his 86-year-old father battles with the brain tumor that will kill him....

In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler....

At 40, 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....

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....

Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a best-selling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the 60s....

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....

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s....

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....