LOVE FOR LIVRES

Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist.

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The Human Stain

Philip Roth - Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The story is told by Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who lives quietly in New England, where Coleman Silk is his neighbor. Silk is a former professor and dean of faculty at nearby Athena College, a fictional institution in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Silk is accused of racism by two African American students. The uproar leads to Silk's resignation. Soon after, his wife Iris dies of a...
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During my holidays	Autumn	To my female lover	Not easy to read	Contemporary	Between 10 and 20$
At least one month

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American pastoral

Philip Roth - Publisher : Vintage Books

Seymour Irving Levov is born and raised in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey, in 1927 as the elder son of a successful Jewish American glove manufacturer, Lou Levov, and his wife Sylvia. Called the Swede because of his anomalous blond hair, blue eyes and Nordic good looks, Seymour is a star athlete in high school a two-year veteran of the Marine Corps and the narrator Nathan Zuckerman's...
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During my holidays	Spring	For all	Not easy to read	Classic modern	Between 10 and 20$
At least one month

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Goodbye, Columbus

Philip Roth - Publisher : Vintage Books

Publisher presentation: goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and...
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Pour tous les jours	Autumn	To my parents in-law	fairly easy to read	Classic modern	Between 10 and 20$
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