My Life as a Man, Philip Roth
My Life as a Man, Philip Roth
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My Life as a Man

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 12 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2024

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth’s most blistering novel.At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen’s death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg.

About Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Book Award, and many more. He also won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union and in the same year received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years “for the entire work of the recipient.”

About Dan John Miller

Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, he starred as Johnny Cash’s guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney’s Leatherheads and My One and Only, with Renée Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine, and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu

Un roman foarte bun, publicat în 1974. Dacă „povestirle” lui Peter Tarnopol - care deschid romanul - nu sînt suficient de interesante, ceea ce urmează, „adevărata poveste” a cuplului Maureen - Peter, e demențială. Ar trebui subliniat de la bun început: naratorul din Viața mea de bărbat NU este Phili......more

Goodreads review by Dave

I read this novel because I am reading all of Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman novels, and this is the eighth of ten for me. This is the first published, in 1974, though it sort of doesn’t quite qualify: In this book, Roth writes three different stories, two of them short stories in a section entitled “Usefu......more

Goodreads review by Fală

În primul rând, romanul ‘’Viața mea de bărbat’’ a lui Phillip Roth e o lecție de literatură. O lecție faină, o lecție motivantă, cum rar mi s-a întâmplat să asist la asemenea pe la Creangă. Mai târziu, romanul mi-a permis sau mai bine zis, m-a făcut să mă autoanalizez într-o oarecare măsură(deși n-am......more

Goodreads review by Veronica

"Viața mea de bărbat" este un roman realist inspirat din viața de cuplu și pentru care Philip Roth a fost acuzat de misoginism. Violență, nevroză, sex, poveste în poveste, dar și referinţele cu trimitere la Flaubert, Dostoievski, Mauriac, Rousseau, Faulkner, fac din acest roman unul dificil de urmăr......more

Quotes

“Roth’s best…No writer alive can sustain a full-length novel at as high a decibel level as Philip Roth.” Newsweek

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