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My Life as a Man (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #0)

Philip Roth

Paperback | Pages: 334 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 1929 Users | 147 Reviews

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Title	:	My Life as a Man (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #0)
Author	:	Philip Roth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 334 pages
Published	:	January 13th 1994 by Vintage (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American. Novels

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At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it 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 cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.

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Original Title:	My Life as a Man
ISBN:	067974827X (ISBN13: 9780679748274)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Complete Nathan Zuckerman #0
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1975)

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A disappointment. A self-indulgent exercise that ends at essentially the same place it began; a self-pitying writer who cant come to grips with his unfortunate decisions and spends a lot of time wallowing in victimization and blame. The central question seems to be how much of a narcissist he is: his analyst thinks hes a gold star narcissist and says its the source of his creativity, his ex wife agrees and leverages his narcissism to torment him. If these questions interest you, then you will be

I read this novel because I am reading all of Roths Nathan Zuckerman novels, and this is the eighth of ten for me. This is the first published, in 1974, though it sort of doesnt quite qualify: In this book, Roth writes three different stories, two of them short stories in a section entitled Useful Fictions; one ,Salad Days, a comic story of a sexual romp featuring Zuck with several women, and the second, Courting Disaster, also featuring Zuckerman with women, but far more serious. Two different

If you are going to be generous to Roth, you can say that this book is an attempt to explore the thin line between fiction and autobiography. It also looks a lot like covering his own ass. Roth basically seems to have wanted to write a book attacking his ex-wife, but at the same time not make it seem like he is just a bitter man attacking his dead spouse. Since the book includes such horrible things as a protagonist who casually commits domestic violence, it is interesting what Roth thought he

With some regret, I give this one two stars. In the end, my apathy/mild hate for the main character (as intended) was too overwhelming to enjoy this book. It was well-written but perhaps more complex than strictly necessary; the two short stories at start provide more than enough fodder for the remainder of the plot, but then the plot jumps around chronologically in a dizzying and ultimately uninteresting way. A disappointing Philip Roth.

FIRST LINE REVIEW: "First, foremost, the puppyish, protected upbringing above his father's show store in Camden." Always interesting to go back to the first line after finishing a book. In this case, the book ends where it began, with the narrator (author?) reflecting back on his childhood where he has come to believe that all his troubles began (or where his salvation lay). This was a twisted, messed up book with truly unlikeable characters throughout. While I loved the writing, I wanted to

Deft, and with shades of Human Stain and Mickey Sabbath, but ultimately not his best and, sadly, tied to its time.

I was nearing the end and set to give this extremely autobiographical novel, the twelfth by Roth that I have read, two stars - not exactly respectable, but short of "running out to the dumpster now to burn this." Then Roth caused his fictional wife to crap her pants - in the middle of a scene in which she is already getting the crap beat out of her by her husband. "The smell had spread around us before I saw the turds swelling the seat of her panties." Is it images like this that explain Roth's