Roth, Philip.
Summary: What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Contents: The dying animal -- The plot against America -- Exit ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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Contents: When she was good -- Portnoy's complaint -- Our gang -- The breast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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Contents: Goodbye, Columbus -- The conversion of the Jews -- Defender of the faith -- Epstein -- You cant̕ tell a man by the song he sings -- Eli, the fanatic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1966
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Contents: Operation Shylock: a confession -- Sabbath's theater -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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Contents: American pastoral -- I married a communist -- The human stain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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Summary: "Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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Summary: Roth's "Nemesis" is the story of a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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Summary: When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004
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Summary: The life of an old man who lives for sex. He is Morris Sabbath, 64, a New York puppeteer who made his name with lewd performances. Feeling death approaching, he relives his many amorous adventures in graphic detail. By the author of Portnoy's Complaint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1995
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Contents: The ghost writer -- Zuckerman unbound -- The anatomy lesson -- The Prague orgy -- Appendix: The Prague orgy, a television adaptation -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
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Summary: During the McCarthy era, a wife revenges herself on her husband by denouncing him as a Communist. It happens to Iron Rinn, a radio commentator, after he told her he did not want her daughter in the house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998
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Summary: What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2008
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Contents: The counterlife -- The facts: a novelist's autobiography -- Deception -- Patrimony: a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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Summary: A reader's edition of key writings by the acclaimed author includes the National Book Award-winning "Goodbye, Columbus" and the trenchant psychological portrait, "Letting Go."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTHSummary: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his state of 'emancipated manhood' thrown into tragic disarray. David is a renowned college professor whose life is turned inside out when he becomes involved in a passionate relationship with Consuela. Consuela is a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher. As their sexual relationship evolves, an incredible love story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elegy 2008Summary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006