Everyman

The story of one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality brings to readers a hero whose youthful sense of independence and confidence begins to be challenged when illness commences its attack in middle age. A successful commercial advertising artist, he is the father of two sons, the brother of a good man, and the lonely ex-husband of three different women. Inevitably, he discovers that he has become what he does not want to be. 160p. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.