Description: Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth by Benjamin Taylor (Hardcover) NEW Brand New by Benjamin TaylorHardcover, 2020Penguin booksPrinted in the USAISBN:9780525505242 A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend. I had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of "the natural," the player shot by a stalker in a Chicago hotel room? He gave me an amused look that darkened in-to puzzlement, then fear. Then he pitched forward into the soup, unconscious. When I entered the examining room twenty minutes after our arrival at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Philip said, "No more books." Thus, he announced his retirement.So begins Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are, the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of America's greatest writers. Needless to say, Philip Roth's place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like. In Here We Are, Benjamin Taylor's beautifully constructed memoir, we see him as a mortal man, experiencing the joys and sorrows of aging, reflecting on his own writing, and doing something we all love to do passing the time in the company of his closest friend.Here We Are is an ode to friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways. Benjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today, and this new memoir pays tribute to his friend, in the way that only a writer can. Roth encouraged him to write this book, giving Taylor explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death. Unvarnished and affectionately true to life, Taylor's memoir will be the definitive account of Philip Roth as he lived for years to come. You will get an automatic feedback as soon as you leave a positive feedback to us. The system will send you a feedback in a second after you send a feedback to us. We do our best to get our customers satisfaction. IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THIS ITEM, IMMEDIATELY CONTACT US. WE WILL BE HAPPY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM
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Type: Book
Signed By: Benjamin Taylor
Era: 2020s
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Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Intended Audience: Adults
Book Title: Here We Are : My Friendship with Philip Roth
Item Length: 8.1in.
Item Height: 0.7in.
Item Width: 5.4in.
Author: Benjamin Taylor
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Literary, American / General
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages