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My Life As a Man (Vintage International) Paperback - 1994
by Philip Roth
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- Title My Life As a Man (Vintage International)
- Author Philip Roth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-01-13
- Bookseller's Inventory # DD0047912
- ISBN 9780679748274 / 067974827X
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.2 x 0.74 in (20.27 x 13.21 x 1.88 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Married people - United States - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93015504
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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--a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.
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--a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 03/16/2014, Page 14
- Newsweek, 10/01/2007, Page 80