{"product_id":"9781455832460","title":"My Life as a Man","description":"A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, \u003ci\u003eMy Life as a Man\u003c\/i\u003e is Roth's most blistering novel. \u003cbr\u003eAt its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003ePatrimony\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), the PEN\/Faulkner Award for \u003ci\u003eOperation Shylock\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eSabbath's Theater\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for \u003ci\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Counterlife\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e (1959). In 2000 he published \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received his second PEN\/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years \"for the entire work of the recipient.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043685187824,"sku":"9781455832460","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781455832460_p0.jpg?v=1763858964","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781455832460","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}