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Life with a Star

Life with a Star

1998 ·
·4.15·260 Ratings ·224 Pages
“ The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ” ― Chinese Proverb
Authors' Books
  • Mendelssohn is on the Roof

    1998·
    ·4.06·458 Ratings
    On the roof of Prague's concert hall, Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, is charged with the removal of the statue of the Jew Mendelssohn--but which one is he? Remembering his course on "racial science," Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down th
  • Herzog

    2003·
    ·3.78·15,526 Ratings
    This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend - Herzog
  • Novels 1967–1972: When She Was Good / Portnoy’s Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast

    2005·
    ·3.83·156 Ratings
    In this, the second volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth, published by special arrangement with the author, the range and inventiveness of Roth’s fiction is dazzlingly displayed in four extraordin
  • Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go

    2005·
    ·4.03·339 Ratings
    "The title novella, Goodbye, Columbus, the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark and a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire and a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the po
  • Sabbath's Theater

    1996·
    ·3.85·6,436 Ratings
    Winner of the National Book Award for FictionSabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a
  • The Counterlife

    1996·
    ·3.9·2,977 Ratings
    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 uncea
  • Operation Shylock: A Confession

    1994·
    ·3.76·2,927 Ratings
    What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you?In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has be
  • The Anatomy Lesson

    1996·
    ·3.65·1,969 Ratings
    At forty, 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, hi
  • The Great American Novel

    2002·
    ·3.65·1,657 Ratings
    In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that inc
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