The Counterlife
By Philip Roth
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The brothers Nathan and Henry Zuckerman live out a series of alternate versions of their lives in this 1986 Roth novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. In one, Henry dies after heart surgery; in another he moves to a settlement in the West Bank; in another Nathan dies, and later he lives in England with his English wife, Maria.
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- Barack Obama: “Some of the great books by Jewish authors like Philip Roth or Saul Bellow, they are steeped with this sense of being an outsider, longing to get in, not sure what you're giving up — what you're willing to give up and what you're not willing to give up.”