Large, sturdy book, quality red cloth, 324 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar, background in shades of gray with colorful complex design like leaves at center front and back. DJ has very light scratch at bottom back right. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Counter Life

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0374130264

ISBN 13

9780374130268

Binding

Cloth

Edition

1st US

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Very Fine

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Synopsis

This radical work, whose protagonist is the novelist Nathan Zuckerman, ranges from a Christmas Carol service in London's West End to a Sabbath evening celebration in Israel's occupied West Bank. It suceeds in evoking both the nationalist militancy within modern Israel and the coded but palpable manifestations of anti-Semitism in establishment England.

Reviews

For the latest installment in his autobiographical series (collected in Zuckerman Bound , LJ 7/85), Roth has written a puzzle, but one with passion and purpose. Its mysteries, more logical than magical, concern whether either Zuckerman brother, Nathan the novelist or Henry the dentist, has suffered impotence from drugs prescribed for a heart condition and has subsequently died during a bypass operation. Each of the book's five chapters, ranging from New York to Israel to London and environs, is contradicted by what follows, until the end reminds us forcefully that The Counterlife is, like any novel, neither true nor false but counterfactual. Along the way, monologues, eulogies, letters, interviews, and conversations ponder Judaism and Zionism, the nature of personality, the competing claims of imagination and life, and (Roth being Roth) sex. Recommended. Hugh M. Crane, Brockton P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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