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ISBN-10: 0679749047
ISBN-13: 9780679749042
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: 08/06/1996
Dimensions: 8.04" L, 5.13" W, 0.73" H

The Counterlife

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Overview

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.
“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”

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"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

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679749047
ISBN-13: 9780679749042
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: 08/06/1996
Dimensions: 8.04" L, 5.13" W, 0.73" H
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