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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

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679749042
  • ISBN-10: 0679749047
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: August 1996
  • Dimensions: 8.04 x 5.13 x 0.73 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
  • Page Count: 336

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