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The Counterlife
by Philip Roth
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In this 1986 novel, Roth's perennial antihero and alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, travels to Israel (among other places) and discovers that a price must be paid if he is going to fulfill the dream to change his life--to find for himself a "counterlife" that will be more fulfilling and vital than the one he leaves behind. Roth plays with the idea of identity in the lives of Nathan and his dentist brother Henry, in a five-part novel that takes the characters through a series of illuminating changes.
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9780679749042,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
1996
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9780224028714,
Book,
Cape,
1987
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9780140097696,
Paperback,
Penguin,
1988
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9780140124217,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
1989
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9780374130268,
Hardcover,
Farrar Straus & Giroux,
1987
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Publisher Notes
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."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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