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Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism.
Houghton Mifflin
April 2006
192 pages
ISBN: 061873516X
Hardcover
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"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself,
when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a
fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and
stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against
America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing
encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's
lifelong confrontation with mortality. Roth's everyman is a
hero whose youthful sense of independence and confidence
begins to be challenged when illness commences its attack in
middle age. A successful commercial advertising artist, he
is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who
adores him. He is the brother of a good man whose physical
well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy. He is the lonely
ex-husband of three very different women with whom he has
made a mess of marriage. Inevitably, he discovers that he
has become what he does not want to be. Roth has been hailed
as "the most compelling of living writers . . . [His] every
book is like a dispatch from the deepest recesses of the
national mind."* In Everyman, Roth once again displays his
hallmark incisiveness. From his first glimpse of death on
the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through his
vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth's hero is a man
bewildered not only by his own decline but by the
unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has
loved. The terrain of this haunting novel is the human body.
Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
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