[]
Everyman
  • Published: 1 June 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501466
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $27.99

Everyman

The Story of Economics in Three Acts

Formats & editions
Paperback
1 June 2007
EBook
1 July 2010
Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

Reissued in electric new backlist style, Everyman is one of Philip Roth's late masterpieces and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Everyman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.

The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.

The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.

The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
  • Published: 1 June 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501466
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again. Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
portrait photo of Philip Roth

Also by Philip Roth

The Humbling
Nemesis
Indignation
Exit Ghost
The Facts
When She Was Good
Letting Go
See all

Praise for Everyman

A savage, heart-wrenching novella

Harper's Bazaar

Roth's writing looks uncompromisingly straightforward but is subtle and clever... A human story for our times

New Statesman

Alive with literary brilliance for all its deathly subject matter

Sunday Times

A simple beautiful ending to a deeply sombre book

Scotland on Sunday

The genius of this short, bleak, remarkable novel stems from the way that Roth turns his desolate assessment of death into something bracing: an angry acceptance that mortality is the price we pay for the sheer wonder of this thing called life

The Times

Shimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life...poignant, droll, and eloquent

Daily Telegraph

Every sentence and every paragraph works with the coiled precision of the watch mechanisms that the narrators father repairs and glitters with the lapidary perfection of the perfection he sells

Independent on Sunday

Capable of altering the way you see the world

Observer

So compelling, so important

Guardian

A human story for our times

A.S. Byatt