Everyman: A Novel

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD

“[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

Philip Roth’s unnamed pro­tag­o­nist, our Every­man, discovers that “old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre" in this 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 c...