false 50695 24 Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of <i>The Plot Against America</i> now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (<i>New York Times</i>) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. 14069 2005 Everyman total:2475|5:372|4:854|3:862|2:323|1:64| 2475 8572 3252 423 4 7 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 01:00:42 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 23:33:40 -0700 2007
But now that I've finished it,...more...]]> 3 4 false true Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jun 20 19:47:31 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:44:23 -0700 2007
This is a book about the betra...more...]]> 2 5 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Mar 19 10:14:32 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 10:35:53 -0700 2008
Especially for those who give up fighting. I've tried a few Roth bo...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 20:31:04 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 23:40:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 00:45:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:22:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Dec 01 13:41:50 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 13:50:24 -0800 2008 You will anxiously burn through the pages waiting for something meaningful to happen.
It never will.

That's kind of, I think, the point.

Even so it will break your heart and you will not be able to sleep all night and you wil...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 15:57:35 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 08:45:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 15 09:02:56 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 24 21:40:09 -0700 2008 On the downside, I just didn't want to he...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 11:42:02 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 05:31:15 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 28 01:36:49 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 01:38:11 -0700 2008 donde la parálisis agita algunas, tristes, últimas canas,
donde la juventud palidece, adelgaza como un espectro, y muere;
donde tan solo pensar es estar lleno de tristeza […]»
John KEATS, "Oda a un RuiseÃ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 07:56:13 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 08:11:13 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon May 28 06:52:52 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 11:53:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 07:22:20 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 07:27:52 -0700 2007
I felt like the prose oversimplified and and in many ways trivialized some fairly important issues related to aging and dying....more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Oct 02 06:00:46 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 06:12:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 08 12:02:34 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 08:03:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed May 13 14:44:57 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:44:57 -0700 2009 Everyman, the person sitting next to me noticed the plain black cover and said, "That looks depressing." I think it is more accurate to call it an existential meditation on death. But don't let even that somber description put you off. Mind you, the book i...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jan 04 12:31:29 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 12:31:40 -0800 2009 Everyman- Summoning The Living To Death, 4 Mar 2007


In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual, with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify, and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances....more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 20:38:16 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 20:41:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jun 12 00:55:11 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 00:55:11 -0700 2009
In American author Philip Roth’s identically named latest novel, the protagonist ponders...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 10:27:54 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 11:19:28 -0700 2009
This book is a reflection on attitude toward aging and death. At one point the protagonist posits, "Old age is not a battle. It is a massacre." This ...more...]]>