Patrimony
A True Story
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Patrimony
Narrated by:
Malcolm Hillgartner
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Narrated by:
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Malcolm Hillgartner
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Philip Roth
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Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.
Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour 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 engagement with life. Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller.
©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews
Nobody writes about the American family with more tenderness and honesty
A simple, moving, generous work
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away - with words. But the Lord giveth back, miraculously, in the form of this book and this family history
A true story, told with all the powerful authority and cunning narrative order of a major writer
His best work since The Counterlife
An extraordinary book about what it is to know a father (Adam Philips)
Roth masterfully creates a remarkable portrait of a life that, seen from the outside, does not seem singular or remarkable, but which Roth turns into something deeply emblematic about the last American century… a literary tour-de-force (Douglas Kennedy)
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