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Patrimony: A True Story

Philip Roth

2

awards won

24

score

#83 of 3,809 books · #48 in Biography & Memoir

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1991) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (1991).

Patrimony won the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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—fights 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.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780593685037
Topics
Father-son relationshipIllness and mortalityAging

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