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The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.

An eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years, featuring works by Paul Theroux, Joseph Conrad, James Ellroy, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Aldous Huxley, Philip Roth, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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 tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman.

Philip Roth is the most decorated American writer of his generation. In Exit Ghost, this master author crafts what may be the final chapter in the story of his beloved hero Nathan Zuckerman. 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.

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. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain or assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain could have been caused by his own books.

Un tempo burattinaio scandalosamente creativo, a sessantaquattro anni Mickey Sabbath conserva il suo sprezzante antagonismo e la sua sfrenata libidine. Ma dopo la morte della sua amante di vecchia data – uno spirito libero in fatto di erotismo, la cui audacia nell’adulterio supera perfino quella dello stesso Sabbath, s’imbarca in un viaggio turbolento nel proprio passato. Nudo e dolente, perseguitato dai fantasmi di coloro che piú l’hanno amato e odiato, ordirà una sequela di disastri farseschi che lo condurranno sull’orlo della follia e dell’estinzione.

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 turbulent 60s. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisors, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech.

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.

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 - mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees on every corner for his beloved boy.

From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.

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 quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, a perverse kind of heroism.

Newark 1944. In der Stadt bricht eine schreckliche Polioepidemie aus. Die meisten Betroffenen sind Kinder...

No estilo impetuoso e desbocado de Philip Roth, Pastoral americana narra os esforços de Seymour Levov para manter de pé um paraíso feito de enganos. Filho de imigrantes judeus que deram duro para subir na vida, Seymour tenta em vão comunicar um legado moral à terceira geração da família Levov. Esmagado entre duas épocas que não se entendem e desejam destruir-se mutuamente, Seymour se apega até o fim a crenças que se mostram cada vez mais irreais. A força de sua obstinação em defesa de uma causa perdida lhe confere um caráter ao mesmo tempo de heroísmo e desatino.

Estate 1944. A Newark imperversa una spaventosa epidemia di polio che minaccia di menomazione e perfino di morte i figli della cittadina del New Jersey. Bucky Cantor, l'animatore ventitreenne di un campo giochi della città, combatte la sua guerra privata contro la malattia nel tentativo di opporsi alla catastrofe. In che modo un individuo può resistere alla forza degli eventi?

Während Amerika sich scheinheilig über die Lewinsky-Affäre echauffiert und Bill Clinton die Amtsenthebung droht, wird in einer Kleinstadt der Universitätsprofessor Coleman Silk durch Intrigen zum Rücktritt gezwungen. Rassismus lautet der Vorwurf. Silk verliert alles – seine Arbeit, seine Frau und schließlich sein Leben. Erst nach dem Tod des Altphilologen kommt sein unglaubliches Geheimnis ans Licht.

Este audiolibro reúne las tres primeras novelas -y una nouvelle- protagonizadas por Nathan Zuckerman ­La visita al maestro (1979), Zuckerman desencadenado (1981) y La lección de anatomía (1983)­, el álter ego de Philip Roth.

Goodbye, Columbus es la historia de Neil Klugman y la hermosa y espiritual Brenda Patimkin. Él es del Newark pobre, ella es del suburbio high class de Short Hills. Su encuentro en unas vacaciones de verano y su affaire posterior nos hablan de las clases sociales, la sospecha y el amor.

Philip Roth nos introduce en una historia íntima y universal sobre la pérdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo.

Mickey Sabbath es un eterno adolescente casi al borde de la jubilación, un ex titiritero imaginativo, genial y libidinoso como el que más.

En sus tiempos de estudiante universitario, David Kepesh dice de sí mismo que es «un bribón entre los sabios, un sabio entre los bribones». Poco se imagina él hasta qué punto ha de cumplirse en el futuro dicho lema, ni el daño que le hará. Porque Philip Roth, mientras acompaña a Kepesh desde su niñez en familia hasta adentrarse en el vasto campo de las posibilidades eróticas, partiendo de un ménage à trois en Londres para caer en las garras de la soledad en Nueva York, va creando una novela de soberana inteligencia....