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Everyman by Philip Roth

Review by JOHN DICKER

There’s an adage that says, “dying is easy, comedy is hard.” Well, Philip Roth just upended that assertion in a big way. In his latest novel, Everyman, death proves to very hard indeed. “Old age is not a battle,” Roth writes. “Old age is a massacre.” Chipper as that sounds, Everyman is vintage Roth: full […]

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