Philip Roth

The Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral by Philip Roth is a gripping narrative that delves deep into the complexities of American life during the latter half of the 20th century. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing America, the novel centres on Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete revered for his achievements and respected for his unwavering dedication...

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 witch hunt 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...

Part of a bold and stylish republication of Philip Roth's entire catalogue into Vintage Classics, this dizzying counterfactual drama is the Pulitzer Prize-winner at his best: terrifically incisive and terrifyingly plausible. The Plot Against America is regarded as one of the great political novels for its depiction of how obedience brings disaster. The New Statesman commends it for its incisive...

Philip Roth's hilarious novel about sex, growing up, psychoanalysis, now reissued in electric new backlist style. 'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' - Guardian Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933-) - A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale...

New to Vintage Classics, this is the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exposed the American psyche. Still profoundly resonant today, it confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. 'A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel' The Times Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede'...