Summary
Reissued in electric new backlist style, Everyman is one of Philip Roth’s late masterpieces and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Everyman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death. The fate of Roth’s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099501466 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099501465 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2007 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
A human story for our times
A human story for our times – A.S. Byatt
Shimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life…poignant, droll, and eloquent * Daily Telegraph *
Capable of altering the way you see the world * Observer *
Alive with literary brilliance for all its deathly subject matter * Sunday Times *
So compelling, so important * Guardian *
Roth’s writing looks uncompromisingly straightforward but is subtle and clever… A human story for our times * New Statesman *
The genius of this short, bleak, remarkable novel stems from the way that Roth turns his desolate assessment of death into something bracing: an angry acceptance that mortality is the price we pay for the sheer wonder of this thing called life * The Times *
Every sentence and every paragraph works with the coiled precision of the watch mechanisms that the narrators father repairs and glitters with the lapidary perfection of the perfection he sells * Independent on Sunday *
A savage, heart-wrenching novella * Harper’s Bazaar *
A simple beautiful ending to a deeply sombre book * Scotland on Sunday *
About The Author
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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