![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Surgery is ruled out for the octogenarian, and the author is a helpless, horrified witness to his father's humiliating demise, ``utterly isolated within a body that had become a terrifying escape-proof enclosure, the holding pen in a slaughterhouse.'' In a fast-paced, cogent memoir, Roth, whose filial devotion and awe are tempered with clear-eyed observational powers, ranges far afield and discusses the anti-Semitism of the insurance firm that employed Herman Roth for 40 years Herman's perfectionism and his latter-day disregard for his wife whom he nevertheless elevated to quasi-sainthood after death Herman's abandonment of his phylacteries in a locker at the local YMHA the author's quintuple bypass surgery weeks before his father's death and Herman's incontinence and the ample size of his genitals. A vigorous 86-year-old, Roth pere wakes up one morning and half his face is paralyzed soon he is deaf in one ear and the verdict is a benign brain tumor. Instead, here is Roth (NBCC Award-winning The Counterlife ) at his most humane as he pens a kaddish to his recently deceased father, Herman. Patrimony by Philip Roth United States Born on Writer 1 Text The Violence of the New Generations (1) Were the sons appalled by violence, with no capacity for inflicting physical pain, useless at beating and clubbing, unfit to pulverize even the most deserving enemy, though not necessarily without t. Alter ego Nathan Zuckerman doesn't appear in these pages, and neither is there any sleight of hand blurring the line between literature and life. ![]()
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