The humbling /
Roth, Philip.
The humbling / Philip Roth. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2010. - 140 p. ; 21 cm
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking end.
9780307472588 (pbk.) 0307472582 (pbk.)
2010020348
Actors--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PS3568.O855 / H85 2010
813/.54
The humbling / Philip Roth. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2010. - 140 p. ; 21 cm
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking end.
9780307472588 (pbk.) 0307472582 (pbk.)
2010020348
Actors--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PS3568.O855 / H85 2010
813/.54