{"product_id":"patrimony-isbn-9780679752936","title":"Patrimony","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • \"A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) about a son watching his elderly father battle with the brain tumor that will kill him—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatrimony, \u003c\/i\u003ea 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—fights 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. | \"A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir.... It smacks of honesty and truthfulness   on every page.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A deeply resonant portrait of a father   and son.... Roth has looked past all comfort and condolence to find the truth—about   himself and his father; about death and the fear of it; and about the absolute vulnerability   to which love condemns us all.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In a cunningly straightforward   way, \u003ci\u003ePatrimony\u003c\/i\u003e tells one of the central true stories many Americans share nowadays.... Such telling is a marvel of artful wit and vigor.... It is the triumphant   art of the literal ... the gloriously pragmatic, unpredictable genius of Philip   Roth's narrative gifts.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e | PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018. | Winner: National Book Critics Circle Award","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301926228197,"sku":"NP9780679752936","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679752936.jpg?v=1767734550","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/patrimony-isbn-9780679752936","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}