num_pages: 334
description: 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.
language: English
title: My Life as a Man
titlecomplete: My Life as a Man
genres: 20th Century, American, Americana, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2425
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage