My Life as a Man

ROTH, Philip

ISBN 10: 0224009877 / ISBN 13: 9780224009874

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1974

About this Item

First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 330 pages. A novel from the author of "Portnoy's Complaint." A tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket that has a tiny bit of wear and with some fading to the spine.

Seller Inventory # 121445

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Life as a Man
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224009877
• ISBN 13: 9780224009874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Real seller with inventory on hand. Hard Cover. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Very Good / No Jacket. Book shows light wear to read cloth covers with gilt print at spine and "PR" at lower front cover. Handsome book. Binding is solid and square, corners a lightly bumped, foxing at page ends, paper is age-toned; exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Inscribed on front end paper to Bud "Best of times in Europe and beyond" and signed and dated by the author.

From the Inside Flap

A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, 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.