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Everyman
Philip Roth
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Description for Everyman
Paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
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 summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.
The terrain of this powerful novel is the human ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099501466
SKU
9780099501466
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About Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the ... Read more
Reviews for Everyman
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
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