My Life as a Man, his eight work of fiction, is about the life (real and imagined) of Peter Tarnopol, an esteemed young American novelist, who is obsessed with a subject he can neither master nor abandon- his disastrous efforts to achieve a responsible and virile manhood, particularly in the mortifying marriage that reduced that youthful venture to a travesty of itself.

(Key Words: Fiction, Literature, Novel, Philip Roth, Peter Tarnopol).