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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
"A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral, Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.
Philip Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father, famous for his vigor, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. Full of love, anxiety and dread, he accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long engagement with life.
Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller.
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