My Life as a Man
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and powered by moral blackmail. And yet, the the couple's relationship is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying - and failing - to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and scorching truths, acts of weakness and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a fierce tragedy about a fatal impasse between a man and a woman.
Customer Reviews
Speedo
Every man should read this novel.It explains the condition of man.More important than this it illustrates the condition of man when relationships go wrong.I read this novel first as a young man and after reading it again I wonder why I didn't listen.Roth some how has a "handle" on the way people live their lives.He's also an expert on how people end up.And heaven forbid he writes about men and how they feel.