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The Counterlife

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

By Philip Roth

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $17.95

Aug 06, 1996 | ISBN 9780679749042

Ebook $12.99

Aug 31, 2022 | ISBN 9780593684986

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    About The Counterlife

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A “magnificent…splendid” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral about people living out their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them even risking their lives to change their seemingly irreversible fates.

    Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book’s evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind 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.

    About The Counterlife

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A “magnificent…splendid” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral about people living out their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them even risking their lives to change their seemingly irreversible fates.

    Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book’s evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind 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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    About Philip Roth

    PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal… More about Philip Roth

    About Philip Roth

    PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal… More about Philip Roth

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 06, 1996 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679749042

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 31, 2022 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780593684986
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    Praise

    “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

    Awards

    Man Booker International Prize WINNER 2011

    National Book Critics Circle Awards WINNER 1987

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