patrimony [Hardcover]

philip roth (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224030108
• ISBN-13: 978-0224030106
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,902,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years "for the entire work of the recipient." In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians Award for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003--2004." In 2007 Roth received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a true story, September 11, 2009

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Elisa Martera "eli" (ITALY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: patrimony (Hardcover)

The novel was very moving and very well written I think P. Roth is a gifted writer.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bard of Newark!, May 7, 2007

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Sylviastel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: patrimony (Hardcover)

Philip Roth might be one of America's greatest contemporary writers and authors. Here, it's autobiographical about his father at 86 years old. It's a loving tale about how he deals with his aging father's illness and death. While he writes with humor, great wit, and a brilliance in understanding how a parent's loss can affect an adult child, this book gets more relevant as we get older with parents. While Roth, a successful author, writes about his relationship with his father, brother Sandy, nephews- Seth and Jonathan, we learn how he lived his life. Roth writes a lot about his hometown of Newark, New Jersey but he gives credit to his father whom he calls the Bard of Newark who knows every street corner and inch of the city. He should write a book called Matrimony about his relationship with his mother and with women. I love Roth and think he's a genius.