Patrimony
A True Story
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446400234
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
A simple, moving, generous work
Independent on Sunday
A true story, told with all the powerful authority and cunning narrative order of a major writer
Sunday Times
An extraordinary book about what it is to know a father
Adam Philips, London Review of Books
His best work since The Counterlife
Observer
Nobody writes about the American family with more tenderness and honesty
New Statesman
Roth masterfully creates a remarkable portrait of a life that, seen from the outside, does not seem singular or remarkable, but which Roth turns into something deeply emblematic about the last American century… a literary tour-de-force
Douglas Kennedy, Writing Magazine
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away - with words. But the Lord giveth back, miraculously, in the form of this book and this family history
Guardian