Author: PHILIP ROTH
Title: Everyman
Description: Central Book House / RH, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 182. 'Roth's writing looks uncompromisingly straightforward but is subtle and clever.A human story for our times' A.S. Byatt, New StatesmanPhilip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, to his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and his own physical woes.A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency,,he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. ln the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.'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' Douglas kennedy, The TimesThis elegant little book shimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life.poignant, droll, and eloquent' Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph. ISBN: 9780099507260. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780099507260
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Title: Everyman
Description: Central Book House / RH, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 182. 'Roth's writing looks uncompromisingly straightforward but is subtle and clever.A human story for our times' A.S. Byatt, New StatesmanPhilip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, to his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and his own physical woes.A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency,,he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. ln the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.'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' Douglas kennedy, The TimesThis elegant little book shimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life.poignant, droll, and eloquent' Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph. ISBN: 9780099507260. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780099507260
Price: EUR 5.00 = appr. US$ 5.43 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 914701
- Book number: 914701
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