"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality...
"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality. Roth's everyman is a hero whose youthful sense of independence and confidence begins to be challenged when illness commences its attack in middle age. A successful commercial advertising artist, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him. He is the brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy. He is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he has made a mess of marriage. Inevitably, he discovers that he has become what he does not want to be. Roth has been hailed as "the most compelling of living writers . . . [His] every book is like a dispatch from the deepest recesses of the national mind."* In Everyman, Roth once again displays his hallmark incisiveness. From his first glimpse of death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through his vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth's hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has loved. The terrain of this haunting novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
第一次看的是中文版，觉得小说不错，发人深省。过去了几个月，这次看英文版，看到一个在错误的泥沼中如孩子般挣扎的老人大喊着“Momma, Poppa, Howie, Phoebe, Nancy, Randy, Lonny—if only I’d known how to do it! Can’t you hear me? I’m leaving! It’s over and I’m leaving y...第一次看的是中文版，觉得小说不错，发人深省。过去了几个月，这次看英文版，看到一个在错误的泥沼中如孩子般挣扎的老人大喊着“Momma, Poppa, Howie, Phoebe, Nancy, Randy, Lonny—if only I’d known how to do it! Can’t you hear me? I’m leaving! It’s over and I’m leaving you all behind!”的时候，彻底崩不住了。英文版太好哭了😢(展开)
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2 有用 红豆b 2019-10-14 01:51:52
越看越像我爸的人生故事 边看边哭 下午看完 晚上我妈打电话说他脑梗了
2 有用 wsmmsbzby 2017-06-28 01:15:07
我觉得可以去看看中医的…
2 有用 鹭纳醍 2023-04-11 14:33:32 北京
第一次看的是中文版，觉得小说不错，发人深省。过去了几个月，这次看英文版，看到一个在错误的泥沼中如孩子般挣扎的老人大喊着“Momma, Poppa, Howie, Phoebe, Nancy, Randy, Lonny—if only I’d known how to do it! Can’t you hear me? I’m leaving! It’s over and I’m leaving y... 第一次看的是中文版，觉得小说不错，发人深省。过去了几个月，这次看英文版，看到一个在错误的泥沼中如孩子般挣扎的老人大喊着“Momma, Poppa, Howie, Phoebe, Nancy, Randy, Lonny—if only I’d known how to do it! Can’t you hear me? I’m leaving! It’s over and I’m leaving you all behind!”的时候，彻底崩不住了。英文版太好哭了😢 (展开)
0 有用 Lune小月亮 2014-10-07 22:54:43
年老和死亡，就又想到了dl
0 有用 colleenwoods 2014-05-21 21:40:38
关于年老和死亡。