Counterlife

You know, Philip Roth -- wrote the book "Counterlife" and he has a major character who's a novelist.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story 1997

Mamet reminds me of a character in The Counterlife, a novel by that lauded wayward son, Philip Roth.

Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel Ariel Gonzalez 2011

The Zuckerman books for example, The Anatomy Lesson and The Counterlife delighted and exasperated Roth's critics and fans.

Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile 2011

Mamet reminds me of a character in The Counterlife, a novel by that lauded wayward son, Philip Roth.

Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel Ariel Gonzalez 2011

In works like The Anatomy Lesson, Operation Shylock, Counterlife, etc., Roth became one of our great formal experimenters and a novelist who constantly thought and rethought the novel, a sort of quiet partner in this sense to Pynchon more than to Bellow.

The moral act of writing 2010

It may not be as ambitious as American Pastoral or The Counterlife, say, or quite as exquisite as The Ghost Writer or Goodbye, Columbus, but to say it's, oh, the seventh - or eighth-best Roth book is still saying a lot.

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I've only read five of Roth's novels to date The Counterlife, the Kepesh trilogy, and Portnoy's Complaint and Portnoy's Complaint was the one I least enjoyed.

The form of modern degradation 2009

Such allusions to a pro-Israel conspiracy of influence and wealth, usually accompanied by protestations of innocence in regard to Jews themselves -- "I am sick of being accused of anti-Semitism," Baroness Tonge has said, "when what I am doing is criticizing Israel" -- have become the commonplaces of anti-Israel discourse in the years since Philip Roth wrote The Counterlife.

Pox Britannia... GayandRight 2009

One feels inclined to yell at the opening of this book, we've read it in Exit Ghost and we've read it in The Counterlife, give us something new!

Anna Dubenko: Exit Ghost, Enter Roth: A Review of The Humbling 2009

Plus we're throwing in the latest Library of America collection of Roth called "Novels and Other Narratives: 1986-1991," which includes the remarkable The Counterlife, as well as The Facts, Deception and the NBCC Award winning Patrimony.

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2008