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Violence
Barely any
Medical procedures; death of a parent; a final violent act
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult content; the protagonist's extramarital affairs
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Very strong; aging as loss; the body's betrayal; the accounting of a life that didn't turn out as hoped; the mortality Roth spent his career circling
What this book is about
Philip Roth's spare late novel — his Booker Prize winner — takes an anonymous protagonist ('Everyman' in the medieval tradition) from childhood through old age, measuring his life against his body's successive failures, the three marriages that didn't hold, the children he let down, and the mortality he cannot accept. It is Roth's most Beckettian work: short, stripped, unsparing about age and death.
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