Length4h 7m
About this audiobook
Philip Roth’s Everyman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from “one family’s harrowing encounter with history” (New York Times) to one man’s lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth’s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.
A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he’s made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be.
The terrain of this powerful novel—Roth’s twenty-seventh book and the fifth to be published in the twenty-first century—is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play, a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (27.7K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreFantasy
Length4 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byGeorge Guidall
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
My Life as a ManPhilip Roth12h 9m3.8 (3.5K)$25
Goodbye, ColumbusPhilip Roth9h 6m3.9 (23.1K)$20
Zuckerman UnboundPhilip Roth5h 28m4.0 (6.3K)$20
PatrimonyPhilip Roth5h 42m4.3 (7.1K)$20 · $0.00
The Plot against AmericaPhilip Roth13h 22m3.9 (93.2K)$23
The CounterlifePhilip Roth12h 14m3.9 (6.2K)$20
IndignationPhilip Roth4h 15m3.9 (23.5K)$14 · $0.00
The Prague OrgyPhilip Roth2h 17m3.8 (5K)$14
Letting GoPhilip Roth24h 59m3.7 (2.6K)$35
When She Was GoodPhilip Roth11h 10m3.6 (4.9K)$25
The Ghost WriterPhilip Roth4h 31m3.9 (15.5K)$17 · $0.00
Exit GhostPhilip Roth7h 36m3.6 (8.7K)$17
The Professor of DesirePhilip Roth8h 45m3.8 (5.8K)$23 · $0.00
NemesisPhilip Roth5h 15m3.9 (23.6K)$17 · $0.00
The Dying AnimalPhilip Roth4h 9m3.7 (16.8K)$15
Sabbath’s TheaterPhilip Roth18h 20m3.9 (12.5K)$30
The Anatomy LessonPhilip Roth7h 36m3.8 (4.9K)$20
DeceptionPhilip Roth4h 1m3.4 (4.1K)$20
The FactsPhilip Roth6h 34m3.7 (1.4K)$23 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book SetToshikazu Kawaguchi18h 55m4.5 (1.4K)$40 · $0.00
The Song of AchillesMadeline Miller11h 15m4.3 (2.3M)$29 · $0.00
The Left and the LuckyWilly Vlautin6h 40m4.4 (1.1K)$24 · $0.00
Hunt of the DragonJuliette Cross9h 46m4.4 (736)$20
Deadly GameChristine Feehan13h 20m4.3 (15.8K)$30
THE RETURN OF THE KINGJ.R.R. Tolkien21h 5m4.7 (1.2M)$7 · $0.00
WildfireIlona Andrews12h 45m4.5 (62.9K)$33 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
Treasure Island (Adventure Classic with Illustrations)Robert Louis Stevenson8h 50m4.5 (11.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Lola in the MirrorTrent Dalton13h 40m4.5 (43.9K)$33 · $0.00
Going PostalTerry Pratchett13h 36m4.5 (163.8K)$33 · $0.00
The Leo Tolstoy CollectionLeo Tolstoy9h 1m4.5 (4.9K)$12 · $0.00
Sword and ShadowMichelle Sagara16h 51m4.5 (2.2K)$40 · $0.00
A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith14h 55m4.4 (577.6K)$33 · $0.00
Dark GuardianChristine Feehan12h 32m4.5 (26.3K)$33 · $0.00
The Neil Gaiman ReaderNeil Gaiman27h 3m4.5 (3.2K)$53 · $0.00
The HobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien10h 51m4.4 (4.9M)$12 · $0.00
You may also like
The Garden Party and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield6h 28m4.0 (14.2K)$2.30
LoteriaMario Alberto Zambrano3h 25m3.8 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Where Is the Mango Princess?Cathy Crimmins8h 21m4.1 (3.6K)$20 · $0.00
Rain GodArturo Islas5h 19m4.1 (1.8K)$24 · $0.00
The Maples StoriesJohn Updike5h 51m3.9 (1.4K)$20
Three WishesLiane Moriarty12h 55m3.9 (164.7K)$33 · $0.00
Every Moment of a FallCarol E. Miller6h 42m4.2 (540)$20
Friend of My YouthAlice Munro10h 3m4.1 (7.1K)$20 · $0.00
From a Low and Quiet SeaDonal Ryan5h 42m4.0 (14K)$20 · $0.00
Family PicturesSue Miller17h 55m3.7 (7.5K)$40 · $0.00
As I Lay Dying (Annotated)William Faulkner7h 38m4.2 (1.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
I'd Rather Burn Than BloomShannon C. F. Rogers8h 27m4.1 (967)$20 · $0.00
Funeral for FlacaEmilly G. Prado5h 36m4.3 (838)$17
An Abbreviated LifeAriel Leve6h4.0 (2.9K)$24 · $0.00
Whiskey and CharlieAnnabel Smith10h 22m3.9 (7.6K)$20
My HusbandMaud Ventura5h 33m3.6 (90.2K)$24 · $0.00
Grisha and Other Short StoriesAnton Chekhov2h 37m3.3 (59)$2.30
The Lost Girls of Camp ForevermoreKim Fu8h 49m3.4 (8K)$20
The SistersNancy Jensen13h 31m3.3 (4.2K)$23 · $0.00
Good in a CrisisMargaret Overton7h 57m3.6 (733)$22 · $0.00