My Life as a Man

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0030126460 / ISBN 13: 9780030126468

Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1975

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Red boards, some wear along edges of spine. Some wear on dustjacket. Minor soiling on foreedge. FITZ.

Seller Inventory # 000448

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Life as a Man
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030126460
• ISBN 13: 9780030126468
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

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 Strinberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.

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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.