My Life as a ManThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness. • "Roth's best.” —Newsweek 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. |
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MY LIFE AS A MAN
User Review - KirkusThe opener here — one of two stories which goes by the name of "Useful Fictions" — is by Peter Tarnopol and about Nathan Zuckerman who is of course Peter Tarnopol who is of course Philip Roth ... Read full review
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User Review - agnesmack - LibraryThingI don't know off hand how many Roth books I've read now, but I suspect it's easily in the two digits. I've also read more essays, reviews and entire books of criticism of Roth than any sane person ... Read full review
Contents
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Section 2 | 33 |
Section 3 | 99 |
Section 4 | 101 |
Section 5 | 119 |
Section 6 | 128 |
Section 7 | 130 |
Section 8 | 168 |
Section 10 | 223 |
Section 11 | 225 |
Section 12 | 241 |
Section 13 | 299 |
Section 14 | 313 |
Section 15 | 315 |
Section 16 | 337 |
Section 9 | 203 |
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