TY - BOOK AU - Roth,Philip TI - The humbling SN - 9780307472588 (pbk.) AV - PS3568.O855 H85 2010 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Vintage International/Vintage Books KW - Actors KW - Fiction KW - Psychological fiction N1 - Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 N2 - 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 ER -