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.
Unvarnished and affectionately true to life, Taylor\'s memoir will be the definitive account of Philip Roth as he lived for years to come..
Roth encouraged him to write this book, giving Taylor explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death.
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.
Here We Are is an ode to Friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways.
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.
Needless to say, Philip Roth\'s place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like.
So begins Benjamin Taylor\'s Here We Are , the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of America\'s greatest writers.
Thus he announced his retirement.
When I entered the examining room twenty minutes after our arrival at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Philip said, No more books.
Then he pitched forward into the soup, unconscious.
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.
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
