{"product_id":"here-we-are-my-friendship-with-philip-roth-paperback","title":"Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Jewish Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of \u003ci\u003eA Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins Benjamin Taylor's \u003ci\u003eHere We Are\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003ci\u003e Here We Are\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere We Are\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Taylor's family memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Hue and Cry at Our House\u003c\/i\u003e, received the 2018 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\/Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice; his \u003ci\u003eProust: The Search\u003c\/i\u003e was named a Best Book of 2016 by Thomas Mallon in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e; and his \u003ci\u003eNaples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay \u003c\/i\u003ewas named a Best Book of 2012 by Judith Thurman in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eTales Out of School, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the 1996 Harold Ribalow Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Getting Even, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Award. He edited \u003ci\u003eSaul Bellow: Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, named a Best Book of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and Jonathan Yardley in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and Bellow's \u003ci\u003eThere Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, also a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, \u003ci\u003eDebriefing\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux in 2017. Taylor is a founding faculty member in the New School's Graduate School of Writing and teaches also in the Columbia University School of the Arts. He is a past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767358652704,"sku":"9780143133452","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f6c52a41cc9e2bb5cf70448da7469946.webp?v=1780309920","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/here-we-are-my-friendship-with-philip-roth-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}