- Roth, philip, 1933-2018, Fathers and sons, American Novelists, Family
In a moving elegy, one of America's most powerful writers recreates his father's ordeal as, suffering from a brain tumor, he battles with the ignominy and helplessness of old age.
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Contemplative, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Carl Hanser, Curley Pub., John Curley & Assoc
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780671758622
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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictio
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