Patrimony

A True Story

De: Philip Roth

Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner

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.

©2016 Philip Roth (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Didn’t want it to end

A beautiful story of a son’s devotion to his father in the last years of his life. A tribute to the complexity of a father and son’s love and relationship in the modern era.

Moving and compelling.

Not sure I can add more than what has been already said.

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.

Surprisingly beautiful

One of his best! Very heartfelt and loving towards his father and perfectly balanced.
The end.😀

Better than Roth’s fiction

The narrator is so spot on that he manages to make even Phillip Roth seem reasonable and somewhat likable most of the time. Nevertheless, the almost constant focus on “Jewishness” eventually becomes more than tiresome, maybe even irritating and for me at least, sometimes gets in the way of Roth’s otherwise superb writing style. Still, I enjoyed this book more than I have any of Roth’s fiction; it was extremely insightful as well as entertaining. I do recommend it.

A beautiful description by a son of his father’s last year

This is a touching, yet neither sentimental nor sweet, account of his father’s last year or so, as he was aging and losing his functioning abilities to perform certain functions. Clearly there is a lot of love and respect between the two and their deepening relationship is touching. Expecting more criticism and sarcasm from Roth, made this “eyes wide open” description even more touching in its lack of judge-mental barbs at his father, at aging or at the anecdotes he relates. I thoroughly enjoyed this listen!