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Patrimony
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  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446400234
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Patrimony

A True Story

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1 June 2011
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27 Apr 2023
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2 June 1992
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Reissued in electric new backlist style, Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.

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.
  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446400234
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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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.
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Praise for Patrimony

A simple, moving, generous work

Independent on Sunday

A true story, told with all the powerful authority and cunning narrative order of a major writer

Sunday Times

An extraordinary book about what it is to know a father

Adam Philips, London Review of Books

His best work since The Counterlife

Observer

Nobody writes about the American family with more tenderness and honesty

New Statesman

Roth masterfully creates a remarkable portrait of a life that, seen from the outside, does not seem singular or remarkable, but which Roth turns into something deeply emblematic about the last American century… a literary tour-de-force

Douglas Kennedy, Writing Magazine

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away - with words. But the Lord giveth back, miraculously, in the form of this book and this family history

Guardian