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Copy Link to Download : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/0547239696 Book Synopsis Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, are melted into air, into thin air. When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away he imagines people laughing at him he can no longer pretend to be someone else. Something fundamental has vanished. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can t persuade him to make a comeback.Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day s journey into night, told with Roth s inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life s performances talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation are stripped off.The Humbling is Roth s thirtieth book.

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Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, are melted into air, into thin air. When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away he imagines people laughing at him he can no longer pretend to be someone else. Something fundamental has vanished. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can t persuade him to make a comeback.Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day s journey into night, told with Roth s inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life s performances talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation are stripped off.The Humbling is Roth s thirtieth book.

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Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip

Roth s startling new book. One of the leading American stage

actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his

magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer

Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, are melted into air, into

thin air. When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and

looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained

away he imagines people laughing at him he can no longer

pretend to be someone else. Something fundamental has

vanished. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his

agent can t persuade him to make a comeback.Into this

shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation

bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for

a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward

comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking

end. In this long day s journey into night, told with Roth s

inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, all the ways that we

convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life s performances

talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation are stripped off.The

Humbling is Roth s thirtieth book.

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