SIGNED 1st Edition DJ Philip Roth Patrimony A True Story Memoir Father Son 1991

by Philip Roth

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First edition · Signed

Title: Patrimony A True Story Author: Philip Roth - SIGNED By ROTH Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1991) Description: The late Philip Roth's touching memoir of his relationship with his father. Signed by Roth on the title page. from the Dust flap: Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has written. “I don’t want to argue with anybody. I never argue. If I tell her something, I only tell her for her own good. If she doesn’t want to listen the hell with her.” That’s the voice of Herman Roth, 86 years old, widower retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumor and fighting death. It’s the voice of Philip Roth's most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet the vernacular speech of the father who created him and whom he now re-creates in a remarkable act of memory, elegy, and appreciation. The novelist Philip Roth watches as his self-disciplined, blunt, irascible, unrelenting progenitor, famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections, does battle with the ignominy and helplessness of old age. 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 distinguished his father’s long, stubborn engagement with life. Against all the odds, Patrimony is also a Surprisingly comic story. Around the old father is a gang of brilliantly vivid Jewish elders: Lil, - Herman’s last and much-maligned love, w

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 1991
• Condition: Very Good

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