The Humbling (Hardcover)

by Philip Roth (Author)

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Hardcover: 118 pages
Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON CA (Nov 17 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067006971X
ISBN-13: 978-0670069712
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Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. "Something fundamental has vanished." Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evaluation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for the bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end.

About the Author

In 1997 PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral, and in 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. In 2002 he received 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' Award for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003—2004."

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