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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Everyman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.

The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.

The fate of Roth''s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.

The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.



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A human story for our times -- A.S. Byatt
Shimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life...poignant, droll, and eloquent * Daily Telegraph *
Capable of altering the way you see the world * Observer *
Alive with literary brilliance for all its deathly subject matter * Sunday Times *
So compelling, so important * Guardian *

Everyman

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 5 April 2007
      ISBN-13 9780099501466
      978-0099501466
      ISBN-10 0099501465
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Philip Roth

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

      Everyman       is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.

      The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.

      The fate of Roth''s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.

      The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.



      Trade Review
      A human story for our times -- A.S. Byatt
      Shimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life...poignant, droll, and eloquent * Daily Telegraph *
      Capable of altering the way you see the world * Observer *
      Alive with literary brilliance for all its deathly subject matter * Sunday Times *
      So compelling, so important * Guardian *

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