Hardcover: 160 pages
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Humbling is Philip Roth’s 30th book!
Roth has won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Medal of Arts at the White House, and a Gold Medal in Fiction, which is the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also has won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Nabokov Award for “a body of work of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship”, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him or her in the highest rank of American literature.”
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Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air." When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. "Something fundamental has vanished." His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can t persuade him to make a comeback.
Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day s journey into night, told with Roth s inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life s performances talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation are stripped off.
The Humbling is Roth s thirtieth book. |
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