num_pages: 240
description: Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the 20th century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized, dissected - and found wanting?
language: English
title: Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man
titlecomplete: Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man
genres: 20th Century, American, Writing, Novels, Literature, College, Classics, Fiction, Humor, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 1331
publisher: Scribner