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American Pastoral by Philip Roth Publisher Comments As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Straight Man: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Penguin Classics: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Publisher Comments Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the history department beckons -- as long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Name of the World (00 Edition) by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes Publisher Comments Nelson Humboldt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great American Novel by Philip Roth Publisher Comments Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the Ruppert Mundys, the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Myself and Others by Philip Roth Publisher Comments The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Ghost Writer (79 Edition) by Phillip Roth Publisher Comments The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Angel by Francine Prose Publisher Comments It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel.It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Publisher Comments 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. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Human Stain by Philip Roth Publisher Comments It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Married a Communist by Philip Roth Publisher Comments Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror by James Hynes Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia—a world where... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Counterlife by Philip Roth Publisher Comments The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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