Principal Works
Short Fiction
"Philosophy, Or Something Like That" 1952; published in journal Et Cetera
"The Box of Truths" 1952; published in Et Cetera
"The Fence" 1953; published in Et Cetera
"Armando and the Fraud" 1953; published in Et Cetera
"The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn" 1954; published in Et Cetera
"The Day It Snowed" 1954; published in journal Chicago Review
"The Contest for Aaron Gold" 1955; published in journal Epoch
"Heard Melodies Are Sweeter" 1958; published in journal Esquire
"Expect the Vandals" 1958; published in Esquire
"The Love Vessel" 1959; published in journal Dial Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories 1959
"Good Girl" 1960; published in journal Cosmopolitan
"The Mistaken" 1960; published in journal American Judaism
"Novotny's Pain" 1962; published in journal The New Yorker
"Psychoanalytic Special" 1963; published in Esquire
"On the Air" 1970; published in journal New American Review
"'I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting'; Or, Looking at Kafka" 1973; published in journal American Review
Other Major Works
Letting Go (novel) 1962
When She Was Good (novel) 1967
Portnoy's Complaint (novel) 1969
Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends) (novel) 1971
The Breast (novel) 1972
The Great American Novel (novel) 1973
My Life as a Man (novel) 1974
Reading Myself and Others (essays and criticism) 1975
The Professor of Desire (novel) 1977
The Ghost Writer (novel) 1979
Zuckerman Unbound (novel) 1981
The Anatomy Lesson (novel) 1983
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue (novel) 1985
The Counterlife (novel) 1986
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (fictional autobiography) 1988
Deception: A Novel (fictional autobiography) 1990
Patrimony: A True Story (fictional autobiography) 1991
Operation Shylock: A Confession (fictional autobiography) 1993
Sabbath's Theater (novel) 1995
American Pastoral (novel) 1997
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