EAN: 9781524705787

HERE WE ARE - BENJAMIN TAYLOR KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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