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| Title | : | Everyman |
| Author | : | Philip Roth |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 182 pages |
| Published | : | April 10th 2007 by Vintage (first published May 9th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Novels. American |
Philip Roth
Paperback | Pages: 182 pages Rating: 3.59 | 16043 Users | 1616 Reviews
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There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and numerous other distinctions. The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.
Details Books Supposing Everyman
| Original Title: | Everyman |
| ISBN: | 0307277712 (ISBN13: 9780307277718) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | New Jersey(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2007) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Everyman
Ratings: 3.59 From 16043 Users | 1616 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books Everyman
I was a little nervous about reading Everyman. I didn't know if I wanted to subject myself to a book I knew was going to be such a downer, nor was I in a hurry to be reminded that I'm going to die one day and that growing old will be a terrifying experience.But now that I've finished it, I don't think it'll keep me up at night like I had thought it would. This book is less about the horror of facing your inevitable death, and more about the hell you can create for yourself in old age if youAlmost perfectly balanced, Everyman reads almost like a funeral dirge. The unnamed protagonist goes over various milestones in his personal life and reflects on the inevitability of death and the difficulties on love. It is a quick read but it leaves a deep impression. As always, Roth's prose is descriptive but not overly so, the dialogues are all highly realistic, and the story is revealed in a manner that keeps you turning the pages and kind of wishing there were more after the end. For me,
Everyman, Philip Roth Everyman is a novel by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2006. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2007. It is Roth's third novel to receive the prize. The book begins at the funeral of its protagonist. The remainder of the book, which ends with his death, looks mournfully back on episodes from his life, including his childhood, where he and his older brother, Howie, worked in his father's shop, Everyman's Jewelry Store. He has been married three
Old age isn't a battle, old age is a massacre.He was no more, freed frombeing, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.
Yesterday I read Everyman. The novel's not long, maybe 180 small pages, and I wasn't doing anything exciting other than shopping at Costco and dodging a water balloon fight (despite my protestations of I'm not playing! I'm not playing!). The book intrigued me because 1) Mary, one of the local librarians, put it on her recommended shelf (I mean for real, in the library, not on GR), 2) at least two of my friends hated it, and 3) I needed something short because I finished a novel Saturday and had
"Old age isn't a battle. Old age is a massacre."- Philip RothThe older I get, the more tolerant I get of Roth's later novellas. I remember thinking when I read one ten plus years ago that they were simply indulgences. Roth throwing off and idea and turning it into a novella. Why couldn't he go back to writing his great novels. Now, as I read some of his last several novels these last several months. Older now. I think I might understand. They aren't as robust as his great novels of the 1990s.
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