The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, 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. What will it take for the pain to finally leave him alone?
Scorchingly funny, gravely disconcerting * Harold Pinter *
The Anatomy Lesson is breathtaking stuff, fiction of grit and energy and pizazz * Washington Post *
Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment..He writes America's most raucously funny novels * The Time *
Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life * Guardian *
This is a beautifully worked and comic novel by a writer at the height of his powers * Sunday Telegraph *
The Anatomy Lesson is breathtaking stuff, fiction of grit and energy and pizazz * Washington Post *
Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment..He writes America's most raucously funny novels * The Time *
Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life * Guardian *
This is a beautifully worked and comic novel by a writer at the height of his powers * Sunday Telegraph *
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature. In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099476610 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099476614 |
| Title | The Anatomy Lesson |
| Author | Philip Roth |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1995-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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