“No American novelist knows his craft better than Philip Roth. But in the past decade, as he turned out a series of masterworks and became, at 70, a bestseller all over again, Roth apprenticed at a literary form that was new to him: the eulogy.” Four close friends died in quick succession, leaving Roth meditating on his own mortality. The pain became the backdrop for his latest novel, which focuses on the death of its title character, Everyman.