Patrimony: A True Story -- Philip Roth

<b>Patrimony</b>, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father--famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections--battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, 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, stubborn engagement with life.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Philip Roth<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 06/03/1996<br><b>Pages:</b> 240<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.56lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.03h x 5.16w x 0.61d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679752936<br><b>Award:</b> National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times</i> 08/11/1996 pg. 24<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p>In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for <i>American Pastoral</i>. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at<i> </i>the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American<i> </i>Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.<i> </i>He twice won the National Book Award and the National<i> </i>Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner<i> </i>Award three times. In 2005 <i>The Plot Against America </i>received<i> </i>the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding<i> </i>historical novel on an American the