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Published Nov. 20, 2009 by Blackstone Publishing.
Herzog
3 stars
(15 reviews)
Herzog is a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life. Thrown out of his ex-wife’s house, Herzog retreats to his abandoned home in a remote village in the Berkshire Mountains. Amid the dust of the disused house, he begins scribbling letters to family, friends, lovers, colleagues, enemies, dead philosophers, ex-presidents - anyone with whom he feels compelled to set the record straight. The letters - which are never sent - are a means to cure himself of the psychic strain of the failures of his life: that of being a bad husband, a loving but poor father, an ungrateful child, a distant brother, an egoist to friends, and an apathetic citizen.
Subjects
- Middle-aged men
- Jewish men
- College teachers
- Failure (Psychology)
- Fiction
- Middle aged men
- National Book Award Winner
- award:national_book_award=1965
- award:national_book_award=fiction
- Universities and colleges
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- New York Times reviewed
- Jews