Everyman [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Roth, Philip

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006

About this Item

Fine condition black boards with gold spine lettering, contained in a fine condition non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote and About the Author. "Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author.turns his attention.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. A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be. The terrain of this powerful novel - Roth's twenty-seventh books and the fifth to be published in the twenty-first century - is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play, a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death." - from the inner front jacket flap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everyman [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine