Patrimony
240 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1991
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ISBN: 9780679752936
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 3 June 1996
Description
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—battles with 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.
