The Counterlife - (Vintage International) by Philip Roth (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A stunning novel 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 <i>The Counterlife</i> are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.<br></b> <br> Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind 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, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Magnificent...splendid.... I hope <b>The Counterlife</b> felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me." --William Gass, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Roth is a comic genius.... In this book (wonderfully sharp, worryingly intense) he is an electrifier." --Martin Amis, <i>The Atlantic</i> <p/>"No other writer combines such a surface of colloquial relaxation and even dishevelment with such a dense load of mediating intelligence.... Roth has never written more scrupulously or, in spots, more lovingly." --John Updike, <i>The New Yorker</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for <i>American Pastoral</i>. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at<i> </i>the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American<i> </i>Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.<i> </i>He twice won the National Book Award and the National<i> </i>Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner<i> </i>Award three times. In 2005 <i>The Plot Against America </i>received<i> </i>the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding<i> </i>historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004."<i> </i>Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: <i> </i>in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities<i> </i>Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth<i> </i>recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018. <p/></p>
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