Patrimony: A True Story
Philip Roth
ASIN: | B01M6USIYM |
Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
Published: | 31 October, 2016 |
Format: | Unabridged |
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Patrimony: A True Story
Philip Roth
With the honesty of a skilled biographer and the sensitivity of a caring son, Roth chronicles the life of his father, Herman, in this gripping work which won a 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award. Roth holds little back in describing his father as a man of rare intensity and fierce independence who, for better or worse, stood by his principles and held others to his own rigorous standards. Writes Roth, "His obsessive stubbornness--his stubborn obsessiveness--had very nearly driven my mother to a breakdown in her final years." Frank throughout, Roth calls his father "a pitiless realist, but I wasn't his offspring for nothing, and I could be pretty realistic, too.
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