Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 061873516X, Hardcover)

Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly 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 skirmish with mortality.

The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.

A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.

The terrain of this powerful novel -- Roth's twenty-seventh book and the fifth to be published in the twenty-first century -- is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play, a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307277712, Paperback)

Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling 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 skirmish with mortality.

The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.

The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0739475797, Paperback)

Another novel by the author of The Ghost Writer and Patrimony.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307391116, Hardcover)

Una novela sobre la perdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo.

La nueva novela de Philip Roth es una historia profundamente íntima sobre la pérdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo. El autor de La conjura contra América desvía ahora su atención de “el angustioso reencuentro de una familia con su historia” (New York Times) a la lucha crónica de un hombre con la moralidad.
El destino del protagonista de la novela, comienza con la primera y abrumadora confrontación con la muerte en las idílicas playas de sus veranos infantiles, pasando por los problemas familiares y los logros profesionales de su edad adulta, hasta llegar a su vejez, cuando se siente desgarrado al comprobar el deterioro de sus contemporáneos y acosado por sus propias dolencias físicas.
Artista publicitario de éxito con una agencia de publicidad en Nueva York, el protagonista, es padre de dos hijos de un primer matrimonio, que lo desprecian, y de una hija de un segundo matrimonio que lo adora. Es el amado hermano de un buen hombre cuyo bienestar físico consigue despertar en él una amarga envidia, y además el solitario ex marido de tres mujeres diferentes con quien ha mantenido matrimonios desastrosos. Al final, es un hombre que acaba siendo lo que no quería llegar a ser.
El caldo de cultivo de esta novela llena de fuerza es el propio cuerpo humano. Su tema es la experiencia humana que nos aterroriza a todos.
Everyman (título original inglés) recibe su título de una obra de teatro alegórica y anónima del siglo xv, un clásico del antiguo drama inglés, cuyo tema es la evocación de la vida en la muerte.