Everyman
CD Edition
by Philip Roth
narrated by George Guidall
Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Book Reference: DIR2148
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2342 5
Duration: 4h 15m (approx.) on 4 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
Synopsis
Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, 'Everyman', is intended to be the personification of mankind.
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 crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes.
Everyman is a painful human story of the regret, loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience which terrifies us all.
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