num_pages: 240
description: Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor 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, stubborn engagement with life.
language: English
title: Patrimony
titlecomplete: Patrimony
genres: Jewish, 20th Century, American, Biography, Literature, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 5189
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Vintage