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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
Really enjoyed this short book, very personal and quite raw at times. If you are a Roth fan, it gives you an insight into the inspiration for his books. This book makes you appreciate that life is precious, regardless of age or disfiguration.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
informative
slow-paced
Read for book group. I have always had a little trouble with Roth although I like his writing just fine. This was a wonderful look at the way father and son relationships change over time--that some dynamics shrink and disappear, others magnify, and still others flip from one party to the other.
Recommended.
Recommended.
"The dream was telling me that, if not in my books or in my life, at least in my dreams I would live perennially as his little son, with the conscience of a little son, just as he would remain alive there not only as my father but as the father, sitting in judgment on whatever I do.
You must not forget anything."
You must not forget anything."
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
This was a very emotional and reflective book told from Philips perspective of his relationship with his ill father. The book covers important themes of the fragality of life and Xenophobia. The relationship between the father and son is a special one with having to both first over come the grief of losing Philips mother and then the tumour being discovered. However, it was a very slow, over descriptive and dense story with some parts not needed such as the detailed description of his Fathers penis. The most shocking part was the heart issue Philip had just a few months before his Father's death echoing it doesn't matter if you're in your late eightes or early forties or even twenties life is precious and should not be taken for granted.
Phillip Roth writes a painfully honest account of his 86 year old fathers brain tumor and eventual death. Not easy to read, but so worth it. I loved the book.
I had to take pain killers to keep up with this shit..
Really good. His father is so real and so imaginable, such a cranky and bossy patriarch that even with his clear faults I can imagine and love in my distant way. It was very funny at points, particularly the scene in Florida with the string quartet, as well as the deadpan realism about death from the characters. Roth doesn't shy away from portraying himself in a negative light and it makes the book better for it. PN