by Philip Roth
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Spirituality, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
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 the...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Spirituality, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
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James Gunn
“RIP Philip Roth. This one hurts, both me and all of literature. He taught me when I was at Columbia and was a huge influence, impressing upon me the importance of writing through the hard times. I have many favorite books by Roth, but this is one of them.”
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