Critical Companion to Philip Roth: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

Coverage includes:

A concise but thorough biography of Roth

Entries on all of Roth's works, including American Pastoral, The Ghost Writer, Sabbath's Theater, The Human Stain, Zuckerman Unbound, the stories collected in Goodbye, Columbus, The Plot Against America, his nonfiction works, and more. Each entry on a fictional work contains subentries on the work's main characters (including Nathan Zuckerman, Alexander Portnoy, "Swede" Levov, and more)

Entries on related people, places, and topics, such as anti-Semitism, Claire Bloom, Newark, satire, and many more

Appendixes, including a chronology, a bibliography of Roth's works, and a secondary-source bibliography.