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Everyman

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $14.95

Apr 10, 2007 | ISBN 9780307277718

Everyman by Philip Roth
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Apr 10, 2007 | ISBN 9780307277718

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About Everyman

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral and “our most accomplished novelist” (The New Yorker) turns his attention to one man’s lifelong skirmish with mortality.

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 rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

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About Philip Roth

PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal… More about Philip Roth

Product Details

Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

Paperback | $14.95
Published by Vintage
Apr 10, 2007 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307277718
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Praise

“Our most accomplished novelist…. [With Everyman] personal tenderness has reached a new intensity.” —The New Yorker

“If descriptive amplitude went out with the nineteenth century, Philip Roth, who strides the whole time and territory of the word, has resuscitated it—in description revved with the power of narrative itself.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Let’s use a noun I’ve never used before: masterpiece.” —Atlantic Monthly

“[Roth is] as essential to the experience of modern America–its literature, history, and moral reckoning–as any writer on the planet.” —The Boston Globe

Awards

Man Booker International Prize WINNER 2011

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction WINNER 2007

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