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The Counterlife

Philip Roth

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The Counterlife won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence. Illuminating these lives in free-fall and transformation is the acrobat mind of novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, 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; a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire; a church in London's West End; or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9781446401194
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Identity and reinventionJewish identity and diasporaFate and alternate lives

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