{"product_id":"book-c2rv","title":"Everyman","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Roth’s new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Plot Against America\u003c\/em\u003e now turns his attention from “one family’s harrowing encounter with history” (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e) to one man’s lifelong skirmish with mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe fate of Roth’s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eA successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he’s made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe terrain of this powerful novel—Roth’s twenty-seventh book and the fifth to be published in the twenty-first century—is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEveryman\u003c\/em\u003e takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play, a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49393899274544,"sku":"BDc2rv","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49393899307312,"sku":"ZEc2rv","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49393899340080,"sku":"40c2rv","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/429362-c2rv-Square.jpg?v=1735359043","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c2rv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}