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Everyman
Record details
- ISBN: 9781428125629
- ISBN: 1428125620
- ISBN: 9781428116290
- ISBN: 142811629X
- ISBN: 9781428116290
- Physical Description: 1 sound media player (4.25 hr.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm + 1 set of earphones + 1 AAA battery
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books ; Cleveland : Findaway World, cp2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by George Guidall. |
| Summary, etc.: | The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion when you're seventy-five." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. |
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| Subject: | Middle-aged persons Fiction |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | A/PLA ROT (Text) | 33260000403908 | Adult Playaway | Available | - |
| Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | P/A FIC ROTH (Text) | 34025154722364 | Digital Audio Book | Available | - |
Electronic resources
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Author Notes
Everyman
Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He attended Rutgers University for one year before transferring to Bucknell University where he completed a B.A. in English with highest honors in 1954. He received an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1955. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, received the National Book Award in 1960. His other books include Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Ghostwriter, Zuckerman Unbound, I Married a Communist, The Plot Against America, The Facts, The Anatomy Lesson, Exit Ghost, Deception, Nemesis, Everyman, Indignation, and The Humbling. He won the National Book Critic Circle Awards in 1987 for his novel The Counterlife and in 1992 for his memoir Patrimony: A True Story. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for Operation Shylock: A Confession and in 2001 for The Human Stain, the National Book Award in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for American Pastoral. He stopped writing in 2010. He died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography)
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