How to be your father’s mother
Adam Phillips
- Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
Cape, 238 pp, £13.99, April 1991, ISBN 0 671 70375 7
A crucial incident in Patrimony comes when Roth’s aged and ill father Herman ‘beshats himself’, as he puts it:
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