Patrimony : A True Story Author: Philip Roth
	Book Information Publisher: Touchstone Books Book Type: Paperback Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780671758622 - ISBN-10: 0671758624 Publication Date: 3/1992

Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor 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.