But the writer made it another six, and reportedly took good care of himself, exercising in a nearby pool daily and hiring a private chef to cook him healthy meals. “I’m going to help you for about a year and then I’m going to get out of your way,” Roth said.
They brokered a collaborative agreement and have since spent hours upon hours in interviews, while Roth has provided him unfettered access to his archival materials. In 2012, Roth hired the respected literary biographer Blake Bailey to direct his focus on him. This account was provided by someone who’s gotten to know Roth more intimately than almost anyone else over the last six years. On May 20, he decided that was it, he was done fighting. His condition, however, deteriorated two weeks ago when his kidneys began to fail. In 1989, he had a quintuple bypass operation, and was diagnosed with coronary artery disease when he was 49 years old. Roth had suffered with heart problems for almost the entire second half of his life.
Doctors soon discovered that he had several blocked stents from a previous angioplasty, a procedure to repair obstructed arteries. They did another angioplasty to unblock those stents and thought he would recover and go home in a few weeks. Paramedics arrived to his apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side and took him to New York Presbyterian Hospital. WASHINGTON - Three weeks ago, Philip Roth was struck with an attack of arrhythmia, or improper beating of the heart, and he dialed 911.
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