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Patrimony: A True Story
Patrimony A True Story
Author: Philip Roth
Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet - his father.
ISBN-13: 9780099914303
ISBN-10: 0099914301
Publication Date: 4/16/1992
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A very well written and touching book. I was not a particularly big Phillip Roth fan but this and the last book (American Pastoral) seemed to justify his reputation. This is a little dark, covering his father's demise as it does, but poignant and honest.
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