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The Writer Nathan Zukerman Comes Down With A Mysterious Physical Affliction--pure Pain, Beginning In His Neck And Shoulders, Invading His Torso And Taking Possession Of His Life. Zukerman, Whose Work Was His Life, Is Unable To Write A Line. Now His Work Is Trekking From One Doctor To The Next--from Orthopedist To Osteopath To Neurologist To Psychiatrist--but None Can Find A Cause For The Pain And Nobody Can Assuage It. So Begins Philip Roth's Strangely Comic New Novel, The Anatomy Lesson. In It, We Find Nathan Zukerman Beset At Age Forty Not Only By His Pain But By His Past. He Seriously Wonders If He Ought To Be A Novelist At All. At His Wit's End, Bewildered By Both The Obstinate Pain And The Isolating Profession, And Unconsolable By His Harem Of Florence Nightingales--gloria, His Accountant's Wildly Mothering Wife; Jaga, The Depressed Polish Refuge From The Hair-treatment Clinic (to Add To His Suffering, Zukerman Is Going Bald); Diana, The Distressingly Self-possessed Finch College Heiress; And The Temptingly Levelheaded Painter Jenny--zukerman Tries To Pin His Catastrophe On Some Source He Can Confront. There Is No Shortage Of Candidates. Zukerman's Brother Blames His Acerbic B

Who reads The Anatomy Lesson?

Author

Philip Roth, Philip Roth

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466846395

Category

humor

Rating

3.65 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14