A Philip Roth Reader

xxiii, 483 pp. Introduction by Martin Green. A rich anthology of selections from the eight novels he has published since then [1959]--Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, The Great American Novel, My Life As a Man, The Professor of Desire, and The Ghost Writer--as well as a newly revised, definitive version of The Breast. Included too are a previously uncollected story, Novotny's Pain (also newly revised), and the much-admired essay-story Looking at Kafka. Organized thematically in three parts.