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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “First edition, first printing: clean copy in very good condition; with dust jacket.”
- Type
- Novel
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780547239699
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0547239696
ISBN-13
9780547239699
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72621784
Product Key Features
Book Title
Humbling
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-013742
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"A deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman in Roth's tight Chekhovian tragedy...Roth observes much (about age, success nad the sexual credit lovers hold one with another) in little space, and the svelte narrative amounts to an unsparing confrontation of self." --- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Bare-bones brilliant, Philip Roth's novella The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) brings us face-to-face-and groin to groin-with the long acclaimed, lately retired theater actor Simon Axler and all the sexy, sickly, slippery goings-on that make up his shockingly funny (when not funereal) offstage suburban-Connecticut highs, lows, and in-betweens." -- Lisa Shea, Elle magazine "I hope you will read The Humbling, I found it to be Roth's best work in years; sentence for sentence, paragraph for paragraph, he's still the most readable serious writer we've got." -- Jesse Kornbluth, The Huffington Post "One of Roth's most eloquent, painful and memorable books." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Philip the great, Philip the audacious, the voracious...When you hear about a new Philip Roth novel, you have to read it." -- O, The Oprah Magazine " The Humbling is the story of arrogance deflated. Yet from its opening sentence, 'He'd lost his magic,' until its stunning, resonant final line, the result is oddly exhilarating. Unlike Axler, Roth has lost none of his power to conjure up teacups from which a willing reader gladly sips." -- The Forward "[Philip Roth has] been on an audacious hot streak for a dozen years...[ The Humbling is] an entertaining inquiry into the relationship between sex and creativity, sex and age, and sex and the ego." -- Entertainment Weekly "elegant and brutal&direct and urgent, a taut and controlled fever-dream that demands to be experienced at a single sitting." -- Los Angeles Times, "A deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman in Roth's tight Chekhovian tragedy...Roth observes much (about age, success nad the sexual credit lovers hold one with another) in little space, and the svelte narrative amounts to an unsparing confrontation of self." --- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Bare-bones brilliant, Philip Roth's novella The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) brings us face-to-face-and groin to groin-with the long acclaimed, lately retired theater actor Simon Axler and all the sexy, sickly, slippery goings-on that make up his shockingly funny (when not funereal) offstage suburban-Connecticut highs, lows, and in-betweens." -- Lisa Shea, Elle magazine "I hope you will read The Humbling, I found it to be Roth's best work in years; sentence for sentence, paragraph for paragraph, he's still the most readable serious writer we've got." -- Jesse Kornbluth, The Huffington Post "One of Roth's most eloquent, painful and memorable books." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Philip the great, Philip the audacious, the voracious...When you hear about a new Philip Roth novel, you have to read it." -- O, The Oprah Magazine " The Humbling is the story of arrogance deflated. Yet from its opening sentence, 'He'd lost his magic,' until its stunning, resonant final line, the result is oddly exhilarating. Unlike Axler, Roth has lost none of his power to conjure up teacups from which a willing reader gladly sips." -- The Forward "[Philip Roth has] been on an audacious hot streak for a dozen years...[ The Humbling is] an entertaining inquiry into the relationship between sex and creativity, sex and age, and sex and the ego." -- Entertainment Weekly "elegant and brutal…direct and urgent, a taut and controlled fever-dream that demands to be experienced at a single sitting." -- Los Angeles Times, A deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman in Roth's tight Chekhovian tragedy. At 65, Simon Axler, a formerly celebrated stage actor, is undergoing a crisis: he can no longer act, his wife leaves him and, suicidal, he checks himself into a psych ward. Then he retires to his upstate New York farm to wait for... something, which arrives in the form of Pegeen, daughter of some old theater friends who is now a lithe, full-breasted woman of forty, though with something of a child still in her smile. A Rothian affair ensues, despite (or perhaps because of) their age difference and Pegeen's lesbian past. Axler overlooks all the signs that should warn him not to trust too much in the affair and instead tries out more and more sexual turns with Pegeen (spanking, strap-ons, role play), until one night they pick up a drunk local for a three-way that might prove to be soul-crushing. Roth observes much (about age, success and the sexual credit lovers hold one with another) in little space, and the svelte narrative amounts to an unsparing confrontation of self. "(Nov.)" Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information., "A deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman in Roth's tight Chekhovian tragedy...Roth observes much (about age, success nad the sexual credit lovers hold one with another) in little space, and the svelte narrative amounts to an unsparing confrontation of self." ---Publishers Weekly, starred review "Bare-bones brilliant, Philip Roth's novella The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) brings us face-to-face-and groin to groin-with the long acclaimed, lately retired theater actor Simon Axler and all the sexy, sickly, slippery goings-on that make up his shockingly funny (when not funereal) offstage suburban-Connecticut highs, lows, and in-betweens." -- Lisa Shea,Elle magazine "I hope you will read The Humbling, I found it to be Roth's best work in years; sentence for sentence, paragraph for paragraph, he's still the most readable serious writer we've got." -- Jesse Kornbluth,The Huffington Post "One of Roth's most eloquent, painful and memorable books." , "A deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman in Roth's tight Chekhovian tragedy...Roth observes much (about age, success nad the sexual credit lovers hold one with another) in little space, and the svelte narrative amounts to an unsparing confrontation of self." --- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Bare-bones brilliant, Philip Roth's novella The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) brings us face-to-face--and groin to groin--with the long acclaimed, lately retired theater actor Simon Axler and all the sexy, sickly, slippery goings-on that make up his shockingly funny (when not funereal) offstage suburban-Connecticut highs, lows, and in-betweens." -- Lisa Shea, Elle magazine "I hope you will read The Humbling, I found it to be Roth's best work in years; sentence for sentence, paragraph for paragraph, he's still the most readable serious writer we've got." -- Jesse Kornbluth, The Huffington Post "One of Roth's most eloquent, painful and memorable books." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Philip the great, Philip the audacious, the voracious...When you hear about a new Philip Roth novel, you have to read it." -- O, The Oprah Magazine " The Humbling is the story of arrogance deflated. Yet from its opening sentence, 'He'd lost his magic,' until its stunning, resonant final line, the result is oddly exhilarating. Unlike Axler, Roth has lost none of his power to conjure up teacups from which a willing reader gladly sips." -- The Forward "[Philip Roth has] been on an audacious hot streak for a dozen years...[ The Humbling is] an entertaining inquiry into the relationship between sex and creativity, sex and age, and sex and the ego." -- Entertainment Weekly "elegant and brutal...direct and urgent, a taut and controlled fever-dream that demands to be experienced at a single sitting." -- Los Angeles Times, "A deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman in Roth''s tight Chekhovian tragedy...Roth observes much (about age, success nad the sexual credit lovers hold one with another) in little space, and the svelte narrative amounts to an unsparing confrontation of self." --- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Bare-bones brilliant, Philip Roth's novella The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) brings us face-to-face—and groin to groin—with the long acclaimed, lately retired theater actor Simon Axler and all the sexy, sickly, slippery goings-on that make up his shockingly funny (when not funereal) offstage suburban-Connecticut highs, lows, and in-betweens." -- Lisa Shea, Elle magazine "I hope you will read The Humbling, I found it to be Roth's best work in years; sentence for sentence, paragraph for paragraph, he's still the most readable serious writer we've got." -- Jesse Kornbluth, The Huffington Post "One of Roth's most eloquent, painful and memorable books." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Philip the great, Philip the audacious, the voracious...When you hear about a new Philip Roth novel, you have to read it." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "The Humbling is the story of arrogance deflated. Yet from its opening sentence, ''He'd lost his magic,'' until its stunning, resonant final line, the result is oddly exhilarating. Unlike Axler, Roth has lost none of his power to conjure up teacups from which a willing reader gladly sips." -- The Forward "[Philip Roth has] been on an audacious hot streak for a dozen years...[The Humbling is] an entertaining inquiry into the relationship between sex and creativity, sex and age, and sex and the ego." -- Entertainment Weekly "elegant and brutal…direct and urgent, a taut and controlled fever-dream that demands to be experienced at a single sitting." -- Los Angeles Times , A deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman in Roth''s tight Chekhovian tragedy. At 65, Simon Axler, a formerly celebrated stage actor, is undergoing a crisis: he can no longer act, his wife leaves him and, suicidal, he checks himself into a psych ward. Then he retires to his upstate New York farm to wait for... something, which arrives in the form of Pegeen, daughter of some old theater friends who is now a lithe, full-breasted woman of forty, though with something of a child still in her smile. A Rothian affair ensues, despite (or perhaps because of) their age difference and Pegeen''s lesbian past. Axler overlooks all the signs that should warn him not to trust too much in the affair and instead tries out more and more sexual turns with Pegeen (spanking, strap-ons, role play), until one night they pick up a drunk local for a three-way that might prove to be soul-crushing. Roth observes much (about age, success and the sexual credit lovers hold one with another) in little space, and the svelte narrative amounts to an unsparing confrontation of self. "(Nov.)" Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
A haunting, incisive and honest new work of fiction from a legendary writer, told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, that strips off all the ways in which we persuade ourselves of our solidity., Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, Axler has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance., 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3568.O855H85 2009
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- *****- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis has been one of the best experiences I've ever had on Ebay. The book arrived on time and well packaged. It was in pristine condition (First edition, First printing). I was especially impressed that the seller included a note inviting me to contact him if I had comments or concerns. That personal touch made a good impression on me. I wish more Ebay merchants did this. Overall, I not only received a great book, I also found a seller I will be using in the future.
- *****- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe seller was great to deal with - polite, courteous and very professional. The item offered / listed is a good quality item as described, was packaged professionally and promptly sent by a reputable courier, arriving in good condition. I would recommend this seller as trustworthy and describe them as awesome to deal with. Thank you.