Скачать книгу (размер 1 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 279) Аннотация: In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: 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. At…
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long days journey into night, told with Roths inimitable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: 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. At…
Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: The final installment of the Zuckerman series, from Pulitzer Prize winning author Philip Roth. Alone in New England, Nathan Zukerman had been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, and no women. Now, back in New York City, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 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 here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress — an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own — Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living…
Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from one family's harrowing encounter with history (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with a woman half his age. And it's not the secret of his alleged racism, which provoked the college witchhunt that cost him his job. Coleman's secret is deeper, and lies at the very core of who he is, and he has kept it hidden from everyone for fifty years. Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the impeachment of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Seymour 'Swede' Levov — a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory — comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall — of a strong,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 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 his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable, his life in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 988 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 391) Аннотация: In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.