<strong>The Counterlife</strong> is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escapesome of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seeminglyi... » 

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escapesome of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seeminglyirreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves the characters ofThe Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternativeexistence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transitionand guiding us through the books evocative landscapes familiar and foreignis the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical envelopingintelligence that calculates the price thats paid in the struggle to changepersonal fortune and reshape history whether in a dentists office in suburbanNew Jersey or in a traditionbound English Village in Gloucestershire or in achurch in Londons West End or in a tiny desert settlement in Israelsoccupied West Bank.BK0807Roth «