{"product_id":"here-we-are-my-friendship-with-philip-roth-9780143133452","title":"Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\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\u003e 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e So 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. Philip Roth's place in the canon is secure, but less clear is what the man himself was like. In Benjamin Taylor's beautifully constructed memoir, we see Roth 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An ode to friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways, \u003ci\u003eHere We Are\u003c\/i\u003e pays tribute to a friend in the way that only a writer can. Roth encouraged Taylor to write this book, giving him explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death. Taylor's memoir will be the definitive account of Philip Roth as he lived for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11133798\"\u003eBenjamin Taylor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143133452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143133454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004020\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43832822464651,"sku":"9780143133452","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_0dc609eb-bd47-4119-92b9-293d5b576e2a.jpg?v=1755623898","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/here-we-are-my-friendship-with-philip-roth-9780143133452","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}