Vintage books The Great American Novel Рот Филип

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 • As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure: how to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral • Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star – and as a bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes – Ira marries Hollywood's leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling expose that identifies Ira as 'an American taking his orders from Moscow'. In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge friends become deadly enemies, parents and children estranged, lovers blacklisted and the great felled from vertiginous heights

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review. Here too are Roth's writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth's writing for half a century

Когда Люси Нельсон была еще ребенком, ее безответственный отец-алкоголик попал в тюрьму. С тех пор Люси превратилась в разъяренного подростка, выступающего против жизни среднего класса и провинциального американского благочестия, намеревающегося изменить окружающих ее мужчин: особенно своего некомпетентного маменькиного сынка-мужа Роя. Время идет, Люси изо всех сил пытается освободиться от ужасного разочарования, вызванного ее отцом, и вечно тоскует по мужчине, которым он никогда не смог бы стать • В романе "Когда она была хорошей" с точностью, подобной скальпелю, Рот изображает ярость, ненависть и неистовство чувств, которые вскоре овладевают жизнью Люси • Книга на английском языке • When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail

A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened world • In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country. It is here he meets Eliza, whose love overturns his ordered vision and whose act of resistance forces him to see the world differently • Jan flees to the New World, where the spirit of avarice is raging and his skills as an engineer are prized. Then one spring morning a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the fens, and confront all that was lost there

В "Великом Гэтсби" Ф. Скотт Фицджеральд запечатлел яркость, беспечность и жестокость богачей в эпоху американского джаза • Великий Гэтсби таинственным образом живет в роскошном особняке на Лонг-Айленде, принимая у себя сотни людей. И все же, кажется, никто не знает его и не знает, как он стал таким богатым. По слухам, он был кем угодно - от немецкого шпиона до героя войны. Люди наперебой требуют приглашений на его дикие вечеринки. Но Джей Гэтсби не обращает на них внимания. Он заботится только об одном человеке - Дейзи Бьюкенен, женщине, которую он ждал всю свою жизнь. Он и не подозревает, что его увлечение приведет к трагедии и закончится убийством • Книга на английском языке • Read F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America

'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars' • The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him? • Vintage Deco: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on

"Тихий американец" был написан Грином под воздействием личных впечатлений, полученных во время работы корреспондентом в Индокитае. События романа разворачиваются в Сайгоне в начале 1950-х годов. Политические игры здесь соседствуют с детективной интригой, а любовная линия придает этой истории особое напряжение • Книга на английском языке • Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love…

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus and east to the great rivers of Russia and the riches of the Byzantine empire • One summer’s day in 793, death arrived from the sea. The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings, sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe. Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships and the very name of Viking gave rise to fear and dread, so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from ‘the Northmen’s Fury’

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth • As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of Amy’s haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusions…

‘Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society’ Wall Street Journal • John O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany, the stories collected here are among O’Hara’s finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker