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Everyman
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Book written by: Philip Roth
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Everyman - book description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780618735167
ISBN: 061873516X
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2006-04
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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Editorial Reviews:
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly 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 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.
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. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.
The terrain of this powerful novel -- Roth's twenty-seventh book and the fifth to be published in the twenty-first century -- is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play, a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.
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Summary: Death Comes
Comment: Reading through many of the already posted reviews, it seems many people missed something in reading this book. It is in fact a book about living and ceasing to live. Yet there is something far deeper in these pages. The temptations of sexuality, battles of personal health and mortality, and maintaining relationships collide in this book as in life. The unnamed main character, like many of us, struggles to appreciate the beauty of the journey.
The main character has endured failed marriages and enviable affairs resulting in a strained relationship with his own children. His relationship with with his daughter Nancy is pivotal to the plot. Only toward the end of his journey does he see a genuine need for atonement. Flashing between the past and present, Roth exhibits the character's health issues in childhood, adulthood, and in present old age. Told in non-chronological fashion that alternates between the past and present, the placement of the passages is skillful. It serves to demonstrate the growing sense of fear and regret that comes to a head at the book's conclusion.
As a fan of Roth, I find myself either loving or strongly disliking his individual books. This book is certainly among his best and deserves the recognition that it has received.
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Summary: Intense emotional insights into regret and aging
Comment: This book moved me deeply. I listened to it 3 years ago, and i never forgot it. I just had an aunt pass away, and i listened to it again. This book has a powerful effect on me. The book is narrated by 'Everyman', and the thoughts, regrets and anger the narrator communicates are ones i have felt as well. Roth really put together a tight story here. I appreciated the way the narrator is not objective, and unwittingly rationalizes his own behavior as understandable while condemning others for the same actions.
I listened to the book, with George Guidall narrating, and i highly recommend it. Mr. Guidall's narration was superb, accurately capturing the many emotions described.
The idea here is similar to Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'. Both works are moving.
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Summary: Everyman by Philip Roth
Comment: It deals with a universal theme courageously. Basically, it establishes that "Anatomy is destiny."
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Summary: There is better.
Comment: I have been trying to catch up on modern authors, and this is the first thing I have read by roth and I liked him less than I liked other such as pynchon, mccarthy, morrison, rushdie, or ishiguru. I almost quit reading the book, but since it was a book about death, I knew the most important segment of it would be at the end; and the book did improve. If you are really interested in good meditations on death and life I would say that the book of ecclesiastes, or the death of ivan ilych or even war and peace would be more meaningful reads. If you wanted something atheistic, I would say read for whom the bell tolls, the stranger, or even the poem ode to a nightengale (the epigraph of this book). If you really want to hear what roth says, just read the last fifty pages; the rest did not feel as if it contained much pith and lost focus, shedding no light on death, instead just being the musing of a normal, hedonistic man who made normal mistakes.
I may read another book by roth, but I felt there was a lack of symbolism and no mythological importance to the book. In that way it seemed like a memior written about just any old events, not events aimed at understanding a very important topic.
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Summary: A Brilliant Work
Comment: This slim volume is a great addition to the body of work of Philip Roth, one of the most impressive writers in the last sixty years of literature. At the fall of Hemingway and Faulkner, at the deaths of Malamud and Bellow, Philip Roth lives to be the most provocative writer of any time. A writer who's characters age with him, but whose stories remain timeless. This book following an unnamed protaganist who is to represent the everyman, truly does, with the fears and worries of death, and ones understanding of mortality. This book should be on the reading list of colleges and High Schools, a mature and proper outlook on life, and the world around us. The story of a human in a human world. A story every human can relate to.
This is our generations The Death of Ivan Illych.
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