The Counterlife, Philip Roth
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The Counterlife

Author: Philip Roth

Unabridged: 12 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2016


Synopsis

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 books evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price thats paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentists office in suburban New Jersey, a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, a church in Londons West End, or a tiny desert settlement in Israels occupied West Bank.

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