Everyman

Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author ofThe Plot Against Americanow 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.

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. In 2006, he received American PEN's highest prize in literature, the PEN/Nabokov Award. He has twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.