- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (25 April 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224030108
- ISBN-13: 978-0224030106
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.5 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,520,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The author examines the life and experiences of his father as the latter comes to terms with a diagnosed brain tumour. Full of love and dread, Roth accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, marvelling at his long, stubborn engagement with life. In "Patrimony", Roth's father is surrounded by a gang of vivid Jewish elders: Lil, Herman's last and much maligned love; his room-mate Bill who can hear the Marine Band he used to play with in World War I being played inside his teeth; the Auschwitz memoirist Walter with his surprising manuscript...and always at the centre of it all, Herman, defiant, enraged, desolated, at the end of his life still striving to prevail. "Patrimony" is dominated by Herman's tough integrity, but is also an intensely painful story, as Roth has to decide whether or not to have the tumour operated on, and whether or not to terminate his father's life.
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a true story
11 Sep 2009
Format:Hardcover
The novel was very moving and very well written I think P. Roth is a gifted writer.
The Bard of Newark!
7 May 2007
Format:Hardcover
Philip Roth might be one of America's greatest contemporary writers and authors. Here, it's autobiographical about his father at 86 years old. It's a loving tale about how he deals with his aging father's illness and death. While he writes with humor, great wit, and a brilliance in understanding how a parent's loss can affect an adult child, this book gets more relevant as we get older with parents. While Roth, a successful author, writes about his relationship with his father, brother Sandy, nephews- Seth and Jonathan, we learn how he lived his life. Roth writes a lot about his hometown of Newark, New Jersey but he gives credit to his father whom he calls the Bard of Newark who knows every street corner and inch of the city. He should write a book called Matrimony about his relationship with his mother and with women. I love Roth and think he's a genius.
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