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Vintage
2007
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Carl Wilkinson, Observer 'capable of altering the way you see the world' Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times Pick of the week - 'one ends the novel exhilarated, buoyed up by its boldness and defiance' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian 'so compelling, so important' Independent A "tight and focused novel" Mail on Sunday A "brief but resonant" novel Irish Times Weekend Review - Rev'd Tom Cooney 'This tight, beautifully structured novel prods at life's finiteness and does so with all the style you would expect' Sunday Herald, Alan Taylor "this is as dark a novel as Roth has written yet it reads like a dream" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Monday Independent rvd by Paul bailey "sombre but always lively novella" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. The Economist "Unexpectedly moving and written in an inviting easy story-telling style
" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Leo Robson, Express A very distinguished novel
presents the reader with lifes one certainty and does so with great power." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Synopsis Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, "Everyman", is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's "Everyman" is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes. A successful commercial advertising artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him, the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. "Everyman" is a painful human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. From the Publisher A magnificent new novel from the Pulitzer-prize winning author, whose most recent novel, The Plot Against America, was hailed as 'the first fictional masterpiece of the twenty-first century' About the Author Philip Roth: In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W.H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years 'for the entire work of the recipient'. (Pages:192) Intended to be the personification of mankind, this work traces from the author's first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers. It is a human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. [When referring to this item please quote stockid 151754]
ISBN: 0099501465
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