The Counterlife Paperback - 1996
by Philip Roth
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.
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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 book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.
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- Title The Counterlife
- Author Philip Roth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-08-06
- ISBN 9780679749042 / 0679749047
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.13 x 0.73 in (20.42 x 13.03 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96005468
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 02/15/1997, Page 166
- Newsweek, 10/01/2007, Page 80
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