Everyman
A magnificent novel 'alive with literary brilliance' from the Pulitzer-prize winning author Philip Roth. Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the...
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A magnificent novel 'alive with literary brilliance' from the Pulitzer-prize winning author Philip Roth.
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, to his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and his own physical woes.
A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is 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. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.
Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780099501466
Publish date: 5 kwietnia 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
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....