The Counterlife (Vintage International) - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679749047 ISBN 13: 9780679749042

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Roth Philip

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Críticas:

"Magnificent...splendid.... I hope The Counterlife felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me." --William Gass, The New York Times Book Review

"Roth is a comic genius.... In this book (wonderfully sharp, worryingly intense) he is an electrifier." --Martin Amis, The Atlantic

"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, The New Yorker

Reseña del editor:

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.

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.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679749047
• ISBN 13: 9780679749042
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336