Bibliograph

The counterlife, Philip Roth

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The counterlife, Philip Roth

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

The counterlife

Medium

sound recording audiobook download

Responsibility statement

Philip Roth

Series statement

Nathan Zuckerman, 5

Summary

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 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, a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, a church in London's West End, or a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank

Target audience

adult

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