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By Philip Roth. 182 pp. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006. $24. ISBN 0-618-73516-X.

In Everyman, Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, one of America's foremost novelists, explores the dark side of aging — at least among men. Roth's protagonist does not want to go gentle into that good night. Rather, he too rages against his body's betrayals, not the least of which is his sexual apparatus. Old age, at least for Roth's character, an unnamed retired advertising executive, is simply a "massacre."

The book apparently has its origins in more than just the author's sense of his own aging and mortality. According to a recent New York Times profile of Roth, it was the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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