Elegía
by:
Jordi Fibla (author)
Philip Roth (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307391117 (0307391116)
Publish date: February 6th 2007
Publisher: Random House Mondadori
Pages no: 160
Edition language: Spanish
Series: Nemeses (#1)
4.5 - I did not like the reader that much - but the book itself is tight, and moving, and frightening....
I think I'm giving this one 5 stars because I felt it spoke to me on a very fundamental level. I am, as was the main character in this book, a non-believer who has pondered deeply the concept of death, and its implications as one who does not subscribe to the idea of an afterlife. When the main ch...
Paperback: 192 pagesPublisher: Vintage (5 April 2007)Language EnglishISBN-10: 0099501465ISBN-13: 978-0099501466I have heard great things about Philip Roth so I ventured in via this book. This is about a man in his contrition and illness in late life before he has the operation that renders him dead....