That ordinary, crucial story is well suited to a comic master, and Mr. Similarly, imagination struggles to preserve the dying father or mother as a distinct personality with its own peculiar failed procedures and heroic measures, independent from those of an institution. Roth portrays in often ebullient detail could be summarized abstractly as the effort to keep death as it once was - a phenomenon of one particular human body and soul - and to prevent it from becoming altogether a phenomenon of Past while coping with their transformed future as dictated by the invasive, also benign pressures of modern medicine and its technologies, bureaucratically organized. In a cunningly straightforward way, "Patrimony" tells one of the central true stories many Americans share nowadays: the agonized, sometimes comic labor of a family and a dying parent who must deal with all the loyalties and grudges of their Roth's material - his father Herman Roth's struggle with a so-called benign tumor that pressesĪgainst his facial nerve and his brain, and eventually kills him. Philip Roth's subtitle, "A True Story," is un ironically accurate the homely phrase captures in spirit the ordinary dignity of Mr. January 6, 1991, Sunday, Late Edition - Finalīy Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky's most recent books of poetry are "History of My Heart" and "The Want Bone."
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