My Life as a Man
About this audiobook
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.
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.
About the author
Philip Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and many more.
Dan John Miller is an actor and musician. He appeared in My One and Only, Leatherheads, and the Oscar-winning Walk the Line. An award-winning audiobook narrator, Miller has won multiple Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly and has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine.
