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Patrimony
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 27 April 2023
- Run Time
- 5 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.
Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long engagement with life. Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller.
©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Nobody writes about the American family with more tenderness and honesty
New Statesman
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A simple, moving, generous work
Independent on Sunday
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The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away - with words. But the Lord giveth back, miraculously, in the form of this book and this family history
Guardian
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A true story, told with all the powerful authority and cunning narrative order of a major writer
Sunday Times
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His best work since The Counterlife
Observer
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An extraordinary book about what it is to know a father
London Review of Books
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Roth masterfully creates a remarkable portrait of a life that, seen from the outside, does not seem singular or remarkable, but which Roth turns into something deeply emblematic about the last American century… a literary tour-de-force
Writing Magazine
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Details
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duration
- 5 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 April 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529914979
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues, Autobiography: general, Social groups: religious groups and communities
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long engagement with life. Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller.©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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