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1 sty 2001 · 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.
5 mar 1987 · The Counterlifeby Philip Roth. Cape, 336 pp., £10.95, February 1987, 0 224 02871 5 Show More. Philip Roth’s new novel is marvellously rich, boisterously serious, dense, fizzing and formally audacious. More than with most novels, to review it is to betray it.
In ''The Counterlife,'' the query has become more riddling, more radical and, despite the antic flipflops of the plot, more serious yet no less witty for all that: can a Jew, if he wishes - if...
Book Reviews on... “ The Counterlife provides several alternative perspectives. The novel’s conflicting points of view take you out of your comfort zone, to use the cliché. As I developed in my account of Roth, there is a counterlife to the public Phillip Roth, and it’s often driven by anger.” Read more... Ira Nadel, Biographer.
4 kwi 2024 · The complete review's Review: The Counterlife is yet another of Philip Roth's novels that features his alter ego/stand-in, Nathan Zuckerman, but it's not quite the sort of chronicle of episodes of his life that the other Zuckerman works are.
1 sty 1986 · Four Chicago sisters anchor a sharp, sly family story of feminine guile and guilt. Newcomer Lombardo brews all seven deadly sins into a fun and brimming tale of an unapologetically bougie couple and their unruly daughters. In the opening scene, Liza Sorenson, daughter No. 3, flirts with a groomsman at her sister’s wedding.
The Counterlife (1986) is a novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the fourth full-length novel to feature the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman. When The Counterlife was published, Zuckerman had most recently appeared in a novella called The Prague Orgy, the epilogue to the omnibus volume Zuckerman Bound.
