
Patrimony
A True Story
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Narrated by:
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Malcolm Hillgartner
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By:
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Philip Roth
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his 86-year-old father - famous for his vigor, his 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.
Philip Roth is hailed by many as the reigning king of American fiction. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir about love, survival, and memory is one of his most intimate books, but also one of his most intellectually vigorous. Patrimony is Roth's elegy to his father, written with piercing observation and wit at the height of his literary prowess.
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A beautiful description by a son of his father’s last year
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Didn’t want it to end
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- Herman Roth, quoted Philip Roth, Patrimony
One of two memoirs/autobiographical works Roth completed. It seemed appropriate to start reading this on Father's Day the year Roth himself died. It was touching, beautiful. It is something as I get older I'm dealing with in my own family and at work. I have clients with tumors progressing. I have a grandmother (my last surviving grandparent) who is struggling in her 80s. Life starts to both warp as you age and become suddenly VERY clear. There are these moments of mortality when you suddenly GET your father or your mother. Caring for them, you become aware not only of their life, but even more aware of your own. Staring into the void is both scary and thrilling. Dying is hard. Living is hard. And in the end you feel like you can't forget. "You must not forget anything."
You must not forget anything
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Except brilliant reading by Malcolm Hillgartner. He along with Roth made the people and emotions come to life for me.
Additionally having lost my father over 20 years ago and my mother five years ago, Patrimony is recommended in thinking back to those losses.
Moving and compelling.
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The end.😀
Surprisingly beautiful
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Better than Roth’s fiction
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Hillgartner is, maybe, a tad too cynical or detached at times, bit this is a great performance anyway.
Philip Roth, I miss you.
I am a daughter, not a son, but
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brilliant, lucid, moving
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Good Memoir, Special Last Times with His Dad
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simple story but touching
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