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The counterlife
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- Book Synopsis
- '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 are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.
- About The Author
- Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again. Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy's Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America's finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780099481355
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage, (06 October 2005)
- Number of Pages
- 328
- Weight
- 244 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 22 mm
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