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The Human Stain (Unabridged)
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Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris
Rating: Average Customer Rating: for The Human Stain (Unabridged):4.0 4.0 (4 Ratings)
Length: 12 hrs and 59 min
Release Date: 01-19-10

The Human Stain
By Philip Roth
Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris

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. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 12 hrs and 59 min
The Breast (Unabridged)
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Narrated by David Colacci
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Length: 1 hour and 49 min
Release Date: 12-29-09

The Breast
By Philip Roth
Narrated by David Colacci

Like a latter-day, Gregor Smasa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis - a daring heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 1 hour and 49 min
The Professor of Desire (Unabridged)
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Narrated by David Colacci
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Length: 8 hrs and 45 min
Release Date: 12-15-09

The Professor of Desire
By Philip Roth
Narrated by David Colacci

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage a trios in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 8 hrs and 45 min
When She Was Good (Unabridged)
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Narrated by Tanya Eby
Rating: Average Customer Rating: for When She Was Good (Unabridged):3.0 3.0 (2 Ratings)
Length: 11 hrs and 14 min
Release Date: 11-15-09

When She Was Good
By Philip Roth
Narrated by Tanya Eby

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 11 hrs and 14 min
The Humbling (Unabridged)
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Narrated by Dick Hill
Rating: Average Customer Rating: for The Humbling (Unabridged):3.14 3.14 (7 Ratings)
Length: 3 hrs and 34 min
Release Date: 11-02-09

The Humbling
By Philip Roth
Narrated by Dick Hill

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. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air". When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 3 hrs and 34 min
Deception (Unabridged)
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Rating: Average Customer Rating: for Deception (Unabridged):3.25 3.25 (4 Ratings)
Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
Release Date: 10-15-09

Deception
By Philip Roth
Narrated by David Colacci, Susan Ericksen

At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her 30s, she is already nervously half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversation - mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 4 hrs and 1 min
Goodbye, Columbus (Unabridged)
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Narrated by John Rubinstein
Rating: Average Customer Rating: for Goodbye, Columbus (Unabridged):4.0 4.0 (2 Ratings)
Length: 8 hrs and 21 min
Release Date: 09-15-09

Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
Narrated by John Rubinstein

Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills - meet one summer and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella, the first book published by Philip Roth, explores issues of both class and Jewish assimilation into American culture. It won the National Book Award in 1960.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 8 hrs and 21 min
Letting Go (Unabridged)
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Narrated by Luke Daniels
Rating: Average Customer Rating: for Letting Go (Unabridged):3.0 3.0 (4 Ratings)
Length: 25 hrs and 3 min
Release Date: 09-15-09

Letting Go
By Philip Roth
Narrated by Luke Daniels

Letting Go is Philip Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was 29. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York and Iowa City, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints, and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 25 hrs and 3 min
The Ghost Writer (Unabridged)
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Narrated by George Guidall
Rating: Average Customer Rating: for The Ghost Writer (Unabridged):4.45 4.45 (11 Ratings)
Length: 4 hrs and 45 min
Release Date: 10-24-08

The Ghost Writer
By Philip Roth
Narrated by George Guidall

At 23, Nathan Zuckerman has already hurt his family with his autobiographical art and ruined his relationship with adultery and dishonesty. Visiting his reclusive idol (famed for his "blend of sympathy and pitilessness") in the Berkshires, the writer watches himself watching himself and attempts to confront his work and life. Events, however, have their revenge, weaving more out of control than even he can anticipate or ask for.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 4 hrs and 45 min
Patrimony: A True Story (Unabridged)
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Narrated by George Guidall
Rating: Average Customer Rating: for Patrimony: A True Story (Unabridged):4.4 4.4 (5 Ratings)
Length: 5 hrs and 51 min
Release Date: 10-22-08
Patrimony: A True Story
By Philip Roth
Narrated by George Guidall

This deeply affecting memoir focuses on the time in the author's life when he learned of his father's terminal brain cancer. A remarkable portrait of a father and son, this work confronts death and fear, and, ultimately, extracts the truth of what it means to love and be loved.

  • UNABRIDGED
  • 5 hrs and 51 min
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