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The Humbling
  • Published: 1 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781446401132
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

The Humbling

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Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has been replaced by a paralysing self-consciousness. Overwhelmed, Axler's wife promptly leaves him, and Axler checks into a psychiatric hospital. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen - formerly a lesbian of 17 years - that Axler's regeneration (and then his final catastrophe) can begin.
  • Published: 1 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781446401132
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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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 The Humbling

Slim, fast-moving, sometimes funny but mostly bleak read...original and unsettling

The Times

Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness. His new work will not detain you long, but it will linger

Telegraph

His most savage and unrelenting work yet... (Roth) has lost neither his voice nor his power to shock

Sunday Herald

Roth's late prodigious burst of creativity continues

Metro

Roth...knows no limits, which is part of the fun of reading him

New Stateman

Adds to his reputation as one of American literature's greats

The Times

While the other big beasts of his literary generation lost it one by one, Roth has enjoyed a flowering of late form barely seen since Yeats.

Literary Review

There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the last of the giants

The Times

The great man of American literature still flashes with brilliance

Sunday Express

A literary colossus, whose ability to inspire, astonish and enrage his readers is undiminished'

Washington Post