Humbling

Philip Roth

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Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE

Publication Date : 29/10/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A short novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Simon Axler, once the leading stage actor of his generation, is now in his 60s and has lost his magic, talent and confidence. With his wife and audience gone, how can he make a comeback? This terrifying self-evaluation lays bare talent, love, sex, hope, energy and reputation.

Publisher's description:

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist. He is one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire.

ISBN: 9780224087933