Patrimony by Philip Roth

Patrimony by Philip Roth

Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son. Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him.

Nobody writes about the American family with more tenderness and honesty * New Statesman *
A simple, moving, generous work * Independent on Sunday *
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away - with wordsBut the Lord giveth back, miraculously, in the form of this book and this family history * Guardian *
A true story, told with all the powerful authority and cunning narrative order of a major writer * Sunday Times *
His best work since The Counterlife * Observer *

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.

Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.

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ISBN 13	9780099914303
ISBN 10	0099914301
Title	Patrimony
Author	Philip Roth
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1992-04-16
Number of pages	176
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