Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a tough-minded, beautifully written memoir…. It smacks of honesty and truthfulness on every page (San Francisco Chronicle).

Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth
has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father-famous for his vigor,
charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections-battles with the brain tumor that
will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father
through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the
survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father’s long, stubborn engagement
with life.