Philip Roth has 26 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 23 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 106 ratings. The most-rated is The Plot Against America.
Nemesis
Summary
Newark 1944. In der Stadt bricht eine schreckliche Polioepidemie aus. Die meisten Betroffenen sind Kinder, denen Lähmung oder gar der Tod droht. Bucky, ein junger Sportlehrer, bewahrt die Ruhe, während in den Familien Panik herrscht. Als er seine Freundin Marcia in ein Kinderferienlager begleitet, scheint der Fluch der Seuche in der idyllischen Landschaft gebannt. Doch wenige Tage nach Buckys Ankunft erkranken auch hier zwei Jungen an Polio und ihn beschleicht ein schrecklicher Verdacht.
©2011 Der Hörverlag (P)2011 Der Hörverlag
When She Was Good
Summary
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. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitiless and compassionate.
©1995 Philip Roth (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Exit Ghost
Summary
Philip Roth is the most decorated American writer of his generation. In Exit Ghost, this master author crafts what may be the final chapter in the story of his beloved hero Nathan Zuckerman. After 11 years of isolation in his New England mountain refuge, Zuckerman returns to New York City and makes three important connections that threaten his carefully protected sense of isolation.
©2007 Philip Roth (P)2007 Recorded Books, LLC
Letting Go
Summary
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. Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."The complex liaison between Gabe and Martha, and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others, are at the heart of this ambitious first novel.
©2009 Phillip Roth (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs
Summary
From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.
©2010 Symphony Space (P)2010 Symphony Space
My Life as a Man
Summary
At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen’s death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.
©1994 Phillip Roth (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.