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Roth, Philip

 
9780099507260: Everyman
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ISBN 10: 0099507269 ISBN 13: 9780099507260
Editorial: Vintage, 2005

Sinopsis

A magnificent new novel from the Pulitzer-prize winning author, whose most recent novel, The Plot Against America, was hailed as 'the first fictional masterpiece of the twenty-first century'

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Acerca del autor

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for ‘the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004’.

Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award ‘for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship’ and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose ‘scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature’. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize.

Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.

De la contraportada

'Roth's writing looks uncompromisingly straightforward but is subtle and clever...A human story for our times' A.S. Byatt, New Statesman
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, to his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and his own physical woes.
A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agencyhe is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. ln the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.
Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.
'The genius of this short, bleak, remarkable novel stems from the way that Roth turns his desolate assessment of death into something bracing: an angry acceptance that mortality is the price we pay for the sheer wonder of this thing called life' Douglas kennedy, The Times
This elegant little book shimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life..poignant, droll, and eloquent' Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph

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Editorial
Vintage
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0099507269
ISBN 13 
9780099507260
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
192
Contacto del fabricante
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9780307277718: Everyman (Vintage International)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0307277712 ISBN 13:  9780307277718
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007
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