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Title	:	Everyman
Author	:	Philip Roth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	April 10th 2007 by Vintage (first published May 9th 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Novels. American

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There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and numerous other distinctions. The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.

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Original Title:	Everyman
ISBN:	0307277712 (ISBN13: 9780307277718)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New Jersey(United States)
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2007)

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Everyman, Philip Roth Everyman is a novel by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2006. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2007. It is Roth's third novel to receive the prize. The book begins at the funeral of its protagonist. The remainder of the book, which ends with his death, looks mournfully back on episodes from his life, including his childhood, where he and his older brother, Howie, worked in his father's shop, Everyman's Jewelry Store. He has been married three

"Old age isn't a battle. Old age is a massacre."- Philip RothThe older I get, the more tolerant I get of Roth's later novellas. I remember thinking when I read one ten plus years ago that they were simply indulgences. Roth throwing off and idea and turning it into a novella. Why couldn't he go back to writing his great novels. Now, as I read some of his last several novels these last several months. Older now. I think I might understand. They aren't as robust as his great novels of the 1990s.

Old age isnt a battle, old age is a massacre. And so Roth takes us into the world of a man who has just crossed his three score and ten as he spirals down through a series of mounting breakdowns in the physical body until the inevitability of death envelopes him.Everyman (the protagonist has no name in this short novel) takes its title from a medieval play that's theme is the summoning of the living to death. Our Everyman is an average guy, an advertising man and a creative artist who has had a

Sad... and very moving!

"What I learned from this book": Philip Roth hates life but he also really really doesn't want to die. He's literati's crowned-king miserablist, saying "old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre." Especially for those who give up fighting. I've tried a few Roth books on the basis of his reputation, but remain mystified -- I think the awards people keep handing him trophies simply from muscle memory. The writing is drab, the characters one-note, and the dialogue often strained and silly

This is the story of a man arriving at the time of life that he never thought would come -- "the remote future" -- the moment of his obliteration. It's a novel about aging, sickness and death in which Roth contemplates the decline of human powers -- told with the inimitable economy he is famous for.At first, the book seems sketchy, even shallow, as it weaves its family saga. It is in the book's second half that Roth is at his best, contemplating the mistakes, regrets, and small triumphs of a

Everyman, Philip Roth Everyman is a novel by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2006. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2007. It is Roth's third novel to receive the prize. The book begins at the funeral of its protagonist. The remainder of the book, which ends with his death, looks mournfully back on episodes from his life, including his childhood, where he and his older brother, Howie, worked in his father's shop, Everyman's Jewelry Store. He has been married three