"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling 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 confrontation with mortality. Roth's everyman is a hero whose youthful sense of independence and confidence begins to be challenged when illness commences its attack in middle age. A successful commercial advertising artist, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him. He is the brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy. He is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he has made a mess of marriage. Inevitably, he discovers that he has become what he does not want to be. Roth has been hailed as "the most compelling of living writers . . . [His] every book is like a dispatch from the deepest recesses of the national mind."* In Everyman, Roth once again displays his hallmark incisiveness. From his first glimpse of death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through his vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth's hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has loved. The terrain of this haunting novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

菲利普·羅斯

一九九七年，菲利普·羅斯憑《美國牧歌》獲得普利策奬。一九九八年，他榮獲白宮頒發的美國國傢藝術奬章，並於二〇〇二年獲得美國藝術與人文學院最高奬——小說金奬，之前獲奬者包括約翰?多斯?帕索斯、威廉?福剋納、索爾?貝婁等。他曾分彆兩度獲得美國國傢圖書奬、美國筆會/福剋納奬和美國書評協會奬。

二〇〇五年，《反美陰謀》一書榮獲二〇〇三至二〇〇四年度美國曆史學傢協會奬，被該協會譽為“一部反映美國主題的曆史小說傑作”，並被《紐約時報?書評周刊》、《舊金山紀事報》、《波士頓環球報》、《芝加哥太陽時報》、《洛杉磯時報?書評周刊》、《華盛頓郵報?書評世界》、《時代》周刊、《新聞周刊》等許多報刊評選為年度好書。在英國，《反美陰謀》榮獲W.H.史密斯年度好書奬，菲利普?羅斯是該奬設立四十六年來第一位兩度獲奬的作傢。

二〇〇五年，羅斯成為第三位在世時被收入“美國文庫”齣版作品全集的美國作傢。這套八捲本文集計劃於二〇一三年齣齊。