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The Ghost Writer

A Novel

by Philip Roth ...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power—the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale—is superb.” —The Washington PostThe Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory ... Read more

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FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power—the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale—is superb.” —The Washington PostThe Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory
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Goodbye, Columbus

And Five Short Stories

by Philip Roth ...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER"A masterpiece."—Newsweek“Superior, startling, incandescently alive.”—The New Yorker**“Brilliant. . . . Both entirely like and distinct from everything Roth wrote later." —**The Times Literary SupplementPhilip Roth’s first book instantly established its author’s reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and fierce compass... ... Read more

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER"A masterpiece."—Newsweek“Superior, startling, incandescently alive.”—The New Yorker**“Brilliant. . . . Both entirely like and distinct from everything Roth wrote later." —**The Times Literary SupplementPhilip Roth’s first book instantly established its author’s reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and fierce compass...
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The Humbling

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Dick Hill ...

Unabridged

3 hours 34 min

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s startling 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 Vanya, all his great roles, “are melted into air, into thin air.” When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence ... Read more

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Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s startling 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 Vanya, all his great roles, “are melted into air, into thin air.” When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence
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When She Was Good

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Tanya Eby ...

Unabridged

11 hours 10 min

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral comes a funny, chilling novel set in a small town in the 1940s Midwest, featuring a young woman whose moral goodness may destroy her.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 ... Read more

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral comes a funny, chilling novel set in a small town in the 1940s Midwest, featuring a young woman whose moral goodness may destroy her.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
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The Prague Orgy

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Nathan Zuckerman Series
Unabridged

2 hours 17 min

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. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he ... Read more

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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. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he
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Indignation

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Ray Chase ...

Unabridged

4 hours 15 min

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. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad ... Read more

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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. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad
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Exit Ghost

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by George Guidall ...

Unabridged

7 hours 37 min

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, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly ... Read more

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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, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly
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Patrimony

A True Story

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

5 hours 43 min

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, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he ... Read more

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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, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he
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The Facts

A Novelist's Autobiography

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Mel Foster ...

Unabridged

6 hours 34 min

The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author—“the most vigorous and truthful of American writers” (Newsday)—who reshaped our idea of fiction. A work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the ... Read more

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The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author—“the most vigorous and truthful of American writers” (Newsday)—who reshaped our idea of fiction. A work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the
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Operation Shylock

A Confession

by Philip Roth ...

"One of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius." -The New York Review of Books"A brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -The Nation"The uncontested master of comic irony." -Time"Diabolically clever, engaging. . . . [A] white-water unstoppable narrative. . . . Roth is so spelndidly convincing. . . that the r... ... Read more

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"One of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius." -The New York Review of Books"A brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -The Nation"The uncontested master of comic irony." -Time"Diabolically clever, engaging. . . . [A] white-water unstoppable narrative. . . . Roth is so spelndidly convincing. . . that the r...
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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The American Trilogy
Unabridged

16 hours 6 min

Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father’s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede’s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede’s ... Read more

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Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father’s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede’s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede’s
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Portnoy’s Complaint

A Novel

by Philip Roth ...

ONE OF THE THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARSPortnoy's Complaint scandalized-and forever changed-American literature." -The Washington Post“Deliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experience”—The New York Times Book Review"The novel that made Roth a literary superstar, and it remains his most contro... ... Read more

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ONE OF THE THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARSPortnoy's Complaint scandalized-and forever changed-American literature." -The Washington Post“Deliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experience”—The New York Times Book Review"The novel that made Roth a literary superstar, and it remains his most contro...
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