The Humbling
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Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has been replaced by a paralysing self-consciousness. Overwhelmed, Axler's wife promptly leaves him, and Axler checks into a psychiatric hospital. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen - formerly a lesbian of 17 years - that Axler's regeneration (and then his final catastrophe) can begin.
Author: Philip Roth
Format: Paperback, 160 pages, 128mm x 197mm, 118 g
Published: 2010, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
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Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has been replaced by a paralysing self-consciousness. Overwhelmed, Axler's wife promptly leaves him, and Axler checks into a psychiatric hospital. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen - formerly a lesbian of 17 years - that Axler's regeneration (and then his final catastrophe) can begin.
The Humbling