num_pages: 176
description: Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long engagement with life. Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller.
language: English
title: Patrimony
titlecomplete: Patrimony
genres: Memoir, Biography, The United States Of America, Literature, 20th Century, Biography Memoir, American, Nonfiction, Jewish, Autobiography
ratings_count: 5194
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Simon & Schuster