Philip Roth: Patrimony, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Patrimony
- A True Story
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 04/1992
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099914303
- Item number:
- 5072255
- Volume:
- 170 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 1992
- Weight:
- 138 g
- Format:
- 198 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 15.4.1992
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Short description
'A simple, moving, generous work' - Independent
Description
Patrimony , a true story, touches the emotions as strongly a anything Philip Roth has ever written. Philip Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father - famous for his vigour, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollection - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long, stubborn engagement with life.
Review
"A true story, told with all the powerful authority and cunning narrative order of a major writer" Sunday Times
Blurb
Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.
Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long engagement with life. Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller.
Biography
Philip Roth wurde 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, geboren. Für sein Werk wurde er mit allen bedeutenden amerikanischen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet. Im Jahre 2001 erhielt er die höchste Auszeichnung der American Academy of Arts and Letters, die Goldmedaille für Belletristik, die alle sechs Jahre für das Gesamtwerk eines Autors verliehen wird. 2006 wurde Philiph Roth mit dem "Pen/Nabokov-Preis" ausgezeichnet, 2007 erhielt er den "Saul-Bellow-Preis" des Schriftsteller-Verbands, 2009 den "Welt"-Literaturpreis und 2011 wurde er mit dem "Man Booker International Prize" ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2012 wurde ihm der Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis in der Kategorie Literatur verliehen.
