http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780307277718-0 - This is a short book that starts with the funeral of an unnamed 70-year old. The book then walks back through his life as a sickly child obsessed with illness, through three marriages and three children, and through his career as an ad man turned painter. This book seems complex and insightful perhaps only because it is written by Roth. Otherwise, it's pretty much just a mundane look into a self-absorbed man who failed to realize his selfishness until it was too late. And maybe not even then. I sincerely hope that the main character of this book is not Everyman.
(* - Winner 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)
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