Philip Roth | The Counterlife
Philip Roth | The Counterlife
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them risking their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. 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.