# The Humbling

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- Book: [The Humbling](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/the-humbling) ([The Humbling.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth/the-humbling.md))
- Authors: [Philip Roth](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-roth)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-565-2
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has been replaced by a paralysing self-consciousness. Overwhelmed, Axler's wife promptly leaves him, and Axler checks into a psychiatric hospital. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen - formerly a lesbian of 17 years - that Axler's regeneration (and then his final catastrophe) can begin.