Isbn: 9780671703752 - patrimony: a true story (30 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. 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, 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. …

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 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, 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.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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, 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. …

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Book is in great condition! Little to no damage present on cover, pages, spine, or corners. An amazing buy.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. 1st printing. dj in mylar sleeve. pages clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Full number line on the copyright page. E4.

Hardcover with. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDBiography: General: Very Good Hardcover with Creased Dust Jacket, Clean Pages, Tips Bumped, Prompt Shipping with Tracking.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in very good dust jacket. Rubbing to dust jacket. First edition *.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDNear fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding. Fine in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. NF Light shelfwear. Jacket Condition: 'NF Light shelfwear' Condition: 'VG+' Notes: Memoir of Philip Roth's Father.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. Second printing. 238pp. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight creasing and toning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. 236pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled fore edge. Speckled beige endpapers. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at spine tail else neat, fresh and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, bumped at extreme edges, short flat crease on verso, remains of previous price label over barcode. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. Roth's memoirs and reflections regarding his father, as his father faces a diagnosis of a brain tumour surrounded by his gaggle of vibrant and diverse Jewish elders. Roth travels each step of the journey with his father. An immensely emotional and painful narrative, at times also scathing, as Roth faces the dilemma of how his father's life might end.…

Zustand: Good. 8vo., 238 pp., Very Good, Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket with staining, sun-fading, curling, rubbing, & edge wear; minor stains on edges of text block; shelf wear. First Edition.

Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth. First edition. First printing. Correct number line, including the 1. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight clean copy without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price of $19.95 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. "Patrimony: A True Story" is Roth's memoir of his father's illness and death, a candid and unsentimental portrait of family love, responsibility, and mortality. Philip Roth (19332018), one of America's most celebrated novelists and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "American Pastoral," wrote this work in mid-career, shortly before the great late novels that secured his reputation. This was his twenty-first book.…

First Edition. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. Fine in publisher's wrappers.

Zustand: Good. 8vo., 238 pp., Very Good, Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket with sun-fading, rubbing, & edge wear; ink mark & minor stains on edges of text block; shelf wear. Mylar Jacket. First Edition.

[0-671-70375-7] 1991. (hardcover) Near fine in fine dust jacket. 238pp. 8vo. Biography / memoir of Roth's relationship with his father. There is a name and date penned to the front free endpaper; otherwise a fine in a fine copy.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998). First Edition. Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Endpapers modestly age-toned, else fine in a near fine lightly age-toned dust jacket.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 238pp. Near fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this National Book Critic Circle Award winner, the tale of the novelist's colorful father in his later years. Signed huge and bold by Roth in blue fineline on title page.…

dj. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Mary K. and Ted- / Philip Roth / Oct 1992." Fine in a Very Good plus, lightly rubbed dust jacket. Signed.