false 18102519 999078 50695 0307277712 9780307277718 348 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186855330m/50695.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186855330s/50695.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50695.Everyman 3.48 2192 The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) 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.]]> 463 3.68 42109 4849 2005 2 5 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...]]>