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Zuckerman unbound
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ISBN: 0140062645 Year: 1983 Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin books,

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When she was good
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ISBN: 014007676X 9780140076769 Year: 1986 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books


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My life as a man.
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ISBN: 0140076808 9780140076806 Year: 1985 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books


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The professor of desire
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ISBN: 0140076778 9780140076776 Year: 1985 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books


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Letting go
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ISBN: 0140062564 9780140062564 Year: 1984 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

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The human stain
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ISBN: 0099422131 9780099422136 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Vintage


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Everyman
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ISBN: 9780099507260 0099507269 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : Vintage,

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Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, "Everyman", is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's "Everyman" is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes. A successful commercial advertising artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him, the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. "Everyman" is a painful human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

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The plot against America
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ISBN: 0099478560 9780099478560 Year: 2005 Publisher: London : Vintage,

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In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America–and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.

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The humbling
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ISBN: 9780224087933 0224087932 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape,

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Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire.

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Operation Shylock : a confession
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ISBN: 009930791X Year: 1994 Publisher: London : Vintage,

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