Everyman

Name: Everyman
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (2 reviews)
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN: 9781449801717

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/07/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

The bestselling author of "The Plot Against America" now turns his attention to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality in this fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. Unabridged. 5 CDs.

About Philip Roth

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for AMERICAN PASTORAL. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

In addition to my usual translations, I’ve decided to read at least one book by famous authors I have not previously read. So I’ll try Philip Roth. But wait! – eons ago I read Portnoy’s Complaint – didn’t everyone back then (1969)? Lol. The review contains mild SPOILERS. Everyman is a chronicle of the......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu

Cînd am deschis cu mai bine de 10 ani în urmă Everyman / Povestea lui Orișicine (într-o altă ediție), nu știam mai nimic despre Philip Roth (1933 - 2018). Mai aveam vreo 3 cărți de el prin casă, dar nu catadicsisem să le răsfoiesc. Nu știam nici că Everyman trimite la o piesă de teatru alegorică din......more

Goodreads review by Dave

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on”—Robert Frost “The meaning of life is that it stops”—Franz Kafka Everyman is one of four short novels Philip Roth wrote in his later career, including Indignation, The Humbling and Nemesis. Everyman is the name that the narrat......more

Goodreads review by Amira

هذه الرواية هي أول عمل اقرؤه لفيليب روث، ومن الأعمال القليلة التي قرأتها في الأدب الأمريكي هي رقم 74 في سلسلة الجوائز التي تصدرها الهيئة المصرية لا أعلم هل يجب أن أصف تلك الرواية بأنها رواية مؤلمة، أم أنها رواية مرعبة أم أن الرعب منها سببه كل ذلك الألم وكل تلك المعاناة التي تصف بها حياة العجائز قرأت......more