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Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father’s long, stubborn engagement with life.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781623730062 |
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Publisher: | Odyssey Editions |
Publication date: | 12/26/2012 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 240 |
Sales rank: | 385,900 |
File size: | 358 KB |
About the Author

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. 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 in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.” Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.
Hometown:
ConnecticutDate of Birth:
March 19, 1933Place of Birth:
Newark, New JerseyEducation:
B.A. in English, Bucknell University, 1954; M.A. in English, University of Chicago, 1955Customer Reviews
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