Philip Roth
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An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Swede Levov is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter Merry has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent...
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It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley,...
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Library of America volume 236
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA)
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c2013
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English
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Library of America volume 237
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The Library of America
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[2013]
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English
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"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."--Dust jacket.
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Library of America volume 205
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Library of America
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c2010
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English
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This sixth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works gathers two novels that marked the beginning of a decade-long creative explosion--one remarkable in an older writer and one heralded by critics as unparalleled in American literary history. In the fiendishly imaginative Operation Shylock, Philip Roth encounters a look-alike who claims Roth's identity and who tours Israel promoting a bizarre reverse exodus...
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Library of America volume 157
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Library of America
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c2005
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English
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Library of America volume 220
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Library of America
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c2011
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English
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Library of America volume 185
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Library of America
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c2008
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English
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Library of America volume 158
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Library of America
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c2005
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English
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Library of America volume 165
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Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam Inc
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c2006
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English