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My Life as a Man

By Philip Roth

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My Life as a Man

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness. • "Roth's best.” —Newsweek A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
1994-01-13
Publication Date:
1994-01-13
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
067974827X
ISBN13:
9780679748274
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
395 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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