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Book SynopsisFinalist for the National Jewish Book Award A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend.I had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of the natural, the player shot by a stalker in a Chicago hotel room? He gave me an amused look that darkened in-to puzzlement, then fear. Then he pitched forward into the soup, unconscious. When I entered the examining room twenty minutes after our arrival at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Philip said, No more books. Thus he announced his retirement.So begins Benjamin Taylor''s
Here We Are, the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of America''s greatest writers. Needless to say, Philip Roth''s place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like. In
Here We Are, Benjamin Taylor''s b
