Synopsis
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now, his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan.
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Review
" The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book...lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions." -- John Updike, "The New Yorker"
" Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels." -- "Time"
" One of Roth's most unsparing and revealing books...forceful and startling." -- "Newsday"
"The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book...lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions." John Updike, "The New Yorker"
"Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels." "Time"
"One of Roth's most unsparing and revealing books...forceful and startling." "Newsday""
"The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book...lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions." --John Updike, The New Yorker
About the Author
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Recently Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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