EVERYMAN

My PGH blogging cohort Anne could probably enlighten me more on the literary resonances of the "Everyman" reference of Philip Roth's latest novel, but it doesn't take a scholar to get what Roth is doing in the book: in this short novel, a narrator describes in excruciatingly plain language every encounter with death and serious illness (his own and close family members') experienced by his unnamed protagonist. Boy, is it a downer, but it's quite powerful. It took me less time to read than AMONG THE THUGS but I wouldn't want to say that "I couldn't put it down."

Baby 2 days late now.