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Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long day's journey into night, told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura and gravity, all our life's performances - talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation - are stripped bare.
Following the dark meditations on mortality and endings in Everyman and Exit Ghost, and the bitterly ironic retrospect on youth and chance in Indignation, Roth has written another in his haunting group of late novels.
Following the dark meditations on mortality and endings in Everyman and Exit Ghost, and the bitterly ironic retrospect on youth and chance in Indignation, Roth has written another in his haunting group of late novels.
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"This is another dark and wonderfully written meditation on life and love by one of American's greatest living writers" (Bookseller)
"There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the great postwar chronicler of America... He is the last of the giants" (The Times)
"Slim, fast-moving, sometimes funny but mostly bleak read ... original and unsettling" (The Times)
"Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness. His new work will not detain you long, but it will linger" (Telegraph)
"His most savage and unrelenting work yet ... (Roth) has lost neither his voice nor his power to shock" (Sunday Herald)
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"There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the great postwar chronicler of America... He is the last of the giants" (The Times)
"Slim, fast-moving, sometimes funny but mostly bleak read ... original and unsettling" (The Times)
"Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness. His new work will not detain you long, but it will linger" (Telegraph)
"His most savage and unrelenting work yet ... (Roth) has lost neither his voice nor his power to shock" (Sunday Herald)
Another brilliant short novel by Philip Roth
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 0099549379
- ISBN 13 9780099549376
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine160
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long day's journey into night, told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura and gravity, all our life's performances - talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation - are stripped bare. In englischer Sprache. 140 pages. 178*111 mm. Codice articolo BN3379
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