Everyman

Description:

"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 hom he's made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be."--Jacket.

subjects: award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction,  Aging,  Middle-aged persons,  Psychological fiction,  PEN/Faulkner Award Winner,  Fiction,  Jewish men,  award:pen_faulkner_award=2007,  Commercial artists,  Mortality,  Large type books,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, psychological,  Jews, fiction,  Domestic fiction,  Roman,  Mann,  Lebenslauf,  Unzufriedenheit,  Alter,  Tod,  Altern,  Belletristische Darstellung,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, family life, general,  Older people,  Death

Places: New York (State),  New York