The Counterlife
1986 • 388 pages

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Roth's most radical work of fiction to date is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them even willing to risk their lives to alter their destinies.

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9 primary books10 released books

#5 in Complete Nathan Zuckerman

Complete Nathan Zuckerman is a 10-book series with 9 released primary works first released in 1974 with contributions by Philip Roth.

My life as a man
#1
The Ghost Writer
#2
Zuckerman Unbound
#3
The Anatomy Lesson
#4
The Prague Orgy
#5
The Counterlife
#6
American Pastoral
#7
Ho sposato un comunista
#8
Der menschliche Makel
#9
Exit Ghost

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reading the judea passages in 2024 is extremely bleak. The jews knew what we were getting into, it was all obvious then, smdh

May 26, 2024

Middle part is good, but Roth exhausts the subject and then the reader.

March 26, 2021

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