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Patrimony: A True Story

Philip Roth

In a moving elegy, one of America's most powerful writers recreates his father's ordeal as, suffering from a brain tumor, he battles with the ignominy and helplessness of old age.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Roth, philip, 1933-2018 -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyIntellectual BiographyMemoir & Personal History

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor1991WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The book presents an intimate elegy in which a son's recreation of his father's brain-tumor suffering emphasizes the ignominy and helplessness of old age.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    25 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 40%.