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The Counterlife

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

"Magnificent ... splendid." --New York Times Book Review

"Unquestionably his masterpiece." --John Banville, London Review of Books

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 mind 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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  • ISBN-13: 9780063499713
  • ISBN-10: 0063499711
  • Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
  • Publish Date: November 2026
  • Page Count: 400

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