A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful,
and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a
woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. At its heart
lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer
and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis.
Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it
is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is
still trying. and failing. to write his way free of it. Out of desperate
inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness,
and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg. a
fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.

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