false 53726680 1483768 6419490 3499242486 9783499242489 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6419490-mein-leben-als-mann 3.50 2 My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.

At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.]]> 463 3.68 42000 4843 765868 3.25 8 0 1974 4 0 false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 10:59:56 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 13 00:58:20 -0800 2009