During his long career, Roth has shown himself a master at creating fictional doppelgängers. In this stunning novel, he creates a mesmerizing alternate world as well, in which Charles A.

Philip Roth, perhaps the last of the greats of ... the Pulitzer-winning American Pastoral, truly provides the skeleton key to the method and madness of his career. The book tells the story of ...

Nestled in a valley among Lancaster County’s rolling farmland, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania has all the charm of small town America. But behind this bucolic veneer lies a fracture in the making. Change ...

One of the great American authors, Philip Roth, has died aged 85 ... His works included American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and Portnoy's Complaint. The New York Times reported that a ...

That’s a scene from Philip ... Roth is my literary God. I like the way he uses language the most. He might not have liked me saying this because he was obviously very insistent on being an ...

From a 1992 letter written by John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) to Philip Roth, sent after le Carré read a draft of Roth’s Operation Shylock. The letter is… ...

In this intimate drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, a Jewish-American businessman finds his seemingly perfect life unraveling after his teenage daughter commits an ...

Philip Roth's When She ... When She Was Good is also interesting because Roth, in his choice of subject matter, is commenting on current literature and on American society. Almost all of his ...

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