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Everyman
By Philip Roth
Everyman
The bestselling author of "The Plot Against America" now turns his attention to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality. Roth's hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has loved.
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Authors:
Philip Roth
Copyright:
2006
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9780307277718
ISBN10:
0307277712
Page Count:
192
Dimensions:
5.21x0.5x7.98
Publisher:
Vintage International
Strand Notes
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his oldage, when he is reduced to observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. The author's 27th book, and fifth to be published in the 21st century. 160p.
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WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and "our most accomplished novelist" (The New Yorker) turns his attention to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
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