The Anatomy Lesson

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0374104913 / ISBN 13: 9780374104917

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., 1983

About this Item

First Printing. Previous owner name in ink on FFEP, else Fine.

Seller Inventory # 001930

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Anatomy Lesson
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374104913
• ISBN 13: 9780374104917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

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Synopsis

In 1973, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who has lost the ability to create, attempts to console himself with women as he decides to abandon writing and become a doctor

From the Inside Flap

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction--pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan.
The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic Hermione Lee has described as "a manner at once...brash and thoughtful... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority." The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue "Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.