Patrimony: A True Story

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Patrimony
Author Philip Roth
Language English
Subject(s) death and dying, father/son relationships
Genre(s) memoir
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date 1991
Pages 238 pp (first edition)
ISBN ISBN 0671703757 (hardback)
ISBN 0679752935 (paperback)

Patrimony: A True Story (1991) is a non-fiction memoir by American writer Philip Roth. In it, he recounts the death of his father, Herman Roth, from brain cancer. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award.