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Title: Dark but captivating
Review: It might seem a funny thing that two of the best novels of the last couple of years both center on grown men waiting for or facing death. On is of course Philip Roth's Everyman, the other Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies. While I think Auster had the better of Roth (it might be down to the different tone of the authors) both books are very good. Everyman is a dark, painful book well deserving of it's black cover. (The Brooklyn Follies is more optimistic while also dwelling on the characters' difficulties.) While it is seldom interesting to hear people talking about their illnesses there is something special about Roth's story of Everyman going from one operation to the next.
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