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02986aam a2200373 i 4500 001 AF36FE22C27211EAA613155897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200710010039 008 200117t20202020nyua 000 0ceng 010 $a 2020002291 020 $a 0525505245 020 $a 9780525505242 035 $a (OCoLC)1124894329 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d FMG $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3568.O855 $b Z935 2020 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Taylor, Benjamin, $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Here we are : $b my friendship with Philip Roth / $c Benjamin Taylor. 246 3 $a My friendship with Philip Roth 264 1 $a [New York, New York] : $b Penguin Books, $c [2020] 300 $a 171 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend. I had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of "the natural," the player shot by a stalker in a Chicago hotel room? He gave me an amused look that darkened in-to puzzlement, then fear. Then he pitched forward into the soup, unconscious. When I entered the examining room twenty minutes after our arrival at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Philip said, "No more books." Thus he announced his retirement. So begins Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are, the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of America's greatest writers. Needless to say, Philip Roth's place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like. In Here We Are, Benjamin Taylor's beautifully constructed memoir, we see him as a mortal man, experiencing the joys and sorrows of aging, reflecting on his own writing, and doing something we all love to do: passing the time in the company of his closest friend. Here We Are is an ode to friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways. Benjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today, and this new memoir pays tribute to his friend, in the way that only a writer can. Roth encouraged him to write this book, giving Taylor explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death. Unvarnished and affectionately true to life, Taylor's memoir will be the definitive account of Philip Roth as he lived for years to come"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Philip Roth -- Benjamin Taylor. 600 10 $a Roth, Philip $x Friends and associates. 650 0 $a Novelists, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 600 10 $a Taylor, Benjamin, $d 1952- $x Friends and associates. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022801.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200710010402.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AF36FE22C27211EAA613155897128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search