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The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies Wherever they may find themselves the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the books evocative landscapes familiar and foreign is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman His is the sceptical enveloping intelligence that calculates the price thats paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history whether in a dentists office in suburban New Jersey or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire or in a church in Londons West End or in a tiny desert settlement in Israels occupied West Bank
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The saga of Henry and Nathan Zuckerman continues, 13 years after novelist Nathan Zuckerman first appeared in Roth's 1974 effort, My Life as a Man. In The Counterlife, the dentist Henry suffers an unsettling--and for Roth, a predictable--side effect to his heart medication: impotence, which leads him to undergo an ill-fated operation. The multi-layered plot line travels from New York to London to Israel, while the characters undergo a series of surprising transformations. In the words of Nathan, a change in one's life causes "a counterlife that is one's own anti-myth." It's vintage Roth.
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"Magnificent...splendid.... I hope The Counterlife felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me." —William Gass, The New York Times Book Review
"Roth is a comic genius.... In this book (wonderfully sharp, worryingly intense) he is an electrifier." —Martin Amis, The Atlantic
"No other writer combines such a surface of colloquial relaxation and even dishevelment with such a dense load of mediating intelligence.... Roth has never written more scrupulously or, in spots, more lovingly." —John Updike, The New Yorker
"Roth is a comic genius.... In this book (wonderfully sharp, worryingly intense) he is an electrifier." —Martin Amis, The Atlantic
"No other writer combines such a surface of colloquial relaxation and even dishevelment with such a dense load of mediating intelligence.... Roth has never written more scrupulously or, in spots, more lovingly." —John Updike, The New Yorker
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- PublisherVintage Books USA
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0099481359
- ISBN 13 9780099481355
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