The Counterlife

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The saga of Henry and Nathan Zuckerman continues, 13 years after novelist Nathan Zuckerman first appeared in Roth's 1974 effort, My Life as a Man. In The Counterlife, the dentist Henry suffers an unsettling--and for Roth, a predictable--side effect to his heart medication: impotence, which leads him to undergo an ill-fated operation. The multi-layered plot line travels from New York to London to Israel, while the characters undergo a series of surprising transformations. In the words of Nathan, a change in one's life causes "a counterlife that is one's own anti-myth." It's vintage Roth.

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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 these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.

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Roth in transition.......2005-08-16

The Counterlife is one of Roth's most unusual and experimental novels, and finds Roth in transition from the spare, elegant books of the Zuckerman Bound trilogy to the more expansive Zuckerman novels of his recent, acclaimed "America" trilogy (American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain).

In The Counterlife we get the full range of Roth--from the moving but wickedly funny first part Basel, where Nathan Zuckerman narrates the events leading to his brother Henry's death and subsequent funeral, to the second section Judea, where Nathan goes to Israel to try to lure Henry (restored to life and now part of a militant Zionist group) back home to the States, to a later section where Nathan has died, and an estranged Henry attends his funeral, to the final sections with Nathan in England, dealing with anti-Semitism and his wife's family in a brilliant bit of social comedy.

Plot sounds confusing, right? Yet The Counterlife is not a wildly post-modern novel, but a fairly straightforward read. Not all parts of the book work as effectively as the others, and the book is less finished than some of Roth's other work, but there are stretches here that contain some of the best writing Roth has ever done. This is a book deeply concerned with questions of identity and free will--more specifically about the many lives we create for ourselves and the way we often form these lives by reacting with or against other people's conceptions of us.

It's a remarkably thought-provoking and absorbing novel; if I would withhold it from the very top tier of Roth's achievements it's only because it lacks the cohesion and concentration of his best work. Still, a deeply rewarding book, and a must-read for Roth fans.

One of his most interesting books .......2004-11-08

This is not the very best Roth, but it is in the second tier . It is a very interesting book. The whole business of exploring alternative paths of life for different characters, of understanding that each of us might have had another life, a counterlife is interesting. One however negative effect of this is that it makes the reader understand the character as something less than real, as a toy, a game being played. Nonetheless Roth plays the game with great skill and verbal magic. And he is especially good at showing us the troubles and tribulations of middle age or late middle age. I found also his consideration of the Jewish situation quite interesting, and his arguing for the superiority of the Diaspora to life in Israel a true provocation. For as one who has lived in Israel for years and believes it to be not only the only Jewish state but the one place in the world where Jews are making their communal history I was in some sense angered and offended by Roth's parodying of ' the settlers' and Jewish nationalism in general. Yet while I was offended by what to my mind is a superficial reading of Jewish history and Israeli reality I could not help laughing at certain sections of the book carried off with a comic brilliance which so far as I know is unequalled by any writer today.

Excessive, in a good and bad way.......2003-09-20

Another book about Roth's Zuckerman characters (I haven't rad the others), The Counterlife is described on the back cover as "Roth's most radical work of fiction to date - about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them even willing to risk their lives to alter their destinies." Indeed, the book is 371 pages of characters analyzing and navel-gazing and dissecting ... the shiksa, Jewish identity and Jewishness, and the type of life they want to lead. Roth gets carried away with this subject-matter (he is at least saying too much if not overwriting), and if you're not one to find postmodern Judaism-and-Jewishness particularly interesting, then look elsewhere for a good read, but on the other hand, it will make you think, and you may also be carried away in the sheer excess of it all.
The book's structure is something else, multi-layered, self-referential and self-parodying, a story within a story. It is basically told in the first person, with some passages being the narration of the protagonist and others the writing of that protagonist, and the line between the two is perhaps blurry because he writes about himself. And letters, eulogies and diatribes abound. But I'll leave that to you to figure out.

"An Australia for Jews" - a sad core amidst fine satire.......2003-04-05

This is a funny, satirical literary novel about the clownish mid-life crisis of a typical suburban Jewish New Jersey dentist - yes, it's Roth country! But at it's heart, in the Israel section of the book, the farce suddenly dies away: I found the sad, powerful tale of the character "Shuki" unexpectedly moving: Shuki, one of the original European settlers of Israel, who enthusiastically built Israel and fought in the front line through all the troubles, is now an exhausted, world-weary man. He sees all the talented Jews of the world settling in places like the USA, Canada, Britain and France, whereas forty years of unrelenting war have turned Israel (he says) into "an Australia for Jews," a place where the first rate don't emigrate to anymore, only the most hopeless come now, those without the skills or talent to get them into the First World, who must experience a day to day tension so profound it's like a recreation of the pogroms of Russia. Roth's stunning departure from the farcical aspects of his story and Shuki's blunt assessments hit the reader like a succession of boxer's blows, the reader lulled previously by all the fine satire and good story telling. Luckily, the farce returns quickly, and we're off for more crazy adventures with the suburban New Jersey dentist and his writer brother, but this is a unexpectedly a very powerful book, and though it came out a few years ago it is, of course, especially moving right now in these troubled times.

Don't miss Roth's other novels if you like this one. I also recommend Dawn Powell's *The Golden Spur*, Simon Raven's *Alms For Oblivion* series, Sandor Marai's *Embers*, the poetry of Philip Larkin and Paul Theroux's *Kowloon Tong*. And all of Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen.

Slice of Life with a Twist.......2002-11-27

This meticulously observed slice of life showing the writer's motivations is Roth's Bildungsroman of a fresh new writer (a young Roth, no doubt) who has recently won an award studying for a few days in the country at the feet of his hoary idol (Saul Bellow?). But it is apparently Roth whose nature is incorrigibly promiscuous. The older writer has not only a devoted but aging wife but a young female houseguest chronicling his life along with the protagonist. Literary conversations alternate with veiled references to the erotic frustrations of matrimonial imprisonment combined with the lure of the fetching houseguest. The protagonist is told by the older writer ("It's like being married to Tolstoy," he says following his dejected wife out into the snow after an argument) that one does not simply leave a woman after thirty years because one wishes to see a new face while drinking his orange juice in the morning. Roth's literary erotic imagination goes to work in the book's middle after hearing snippets of a conversation that leads the reader to think, and him (or his protagonist Zuckerman) to imagine, that the fetching woman is the most famous Jewish writer of all time. And, no, he is not referring to God. A clever literary coming-of-age novel with a highly imaginative twist (I won't reveal it here) as well as the usual Rothian semitic and sexual obsessions-a slice of life with a twist.

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The Counterlife
Philip Roth
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Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol. 3)
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THE COUNTERLIFE
Philip Roth
Manufacturer: New York: Farrar Strauss & Cudahy, 1987
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You not only have your life- you have the lives you might have had

The Counterlife
Philip Roth
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OITV0I

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You not only have your life- you have the lives you might have had .......2007-08-02

Roth excells here in narrative reconstruction, in creating characters whose lives are made vivid, and who are then given counterlives, the lives they might have had. In the course of this Roth also explores Israel- Diaspora relations as one of the characters takes off for Israel and there joins a Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. Roth also explores what will become an obsessional subject for him in most recent years, the subject of illness and aging.
Roth is a writer whose prose moves and is alive. He can hit you unexpectedly with a remark which will make you laugh outloud. I would only suggest that in showing himself so much a master of the art of 'narrative alternatives' he takes from us a bit of the real sympathy we might have from people who having only one life and story, seem to us more real.

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Very nice devotional style book........2006-03-04

WHEN YOUR PET DIES was written primarly for children but is a comfort to adults too. The book can be read very quickly and is bascially in the style of a devotional type book full of nice comforting thoughts. I bought one for myself and have one on reserve for friends and family when the need arises.

Uplifting and Hopeful.......2002-04-15

I have read several books and articles on experiencing grief from the loss of a beloved animal. No book has brought as much hope and a feeling of calmness to me as Ms. Pomerance's "When Your Pet Dies". Written primarily for children, it is as helpful and reassuring to adults as it will be to children. Parents should feel comfortable in allowing their children to read this book. Parents should read it as well. It traces a very realistic picture, both figuratively, as well factually, of the process that humans go through during the life of their beloved pet. The pictures in the book, done by a 13 year old girl, are both colorful and beautiful. They add a great deal to this journey through life into death. I have reread it many times, enjoying it more each time. I highly recommend this book to anyone going through the grief related to pet loss.

Lou Olinger, MS
Grief Counselor for the SPCA of Texas

five stars.......2002-04-15

A great book, with good insight about people who have experienced a loss of a pet. Compassionate and understanding.

Grieving for pets is OK.......2002-04-08

"When Your Pet Dies" may have been written for children, but this beautifully written book should help people of all ages who have lost a beloved animal companion.

Accompanied by lovely illustrations(obviously the work of a youngster!) that help to clarify the text, it contains important information about the grieving process and makes it clear that grief is OK and normal. It should help children to identify their feelings and begin the process of recovery.

As a special education teacher and educator, I highly recommend this eloquently written book for children(and their parents)who have had the devastating experience of losing a beloved pet.

Help for one of a life's hardest times.......2002-04-03

Not only does this beautifully written book help children who have suffered a major loss, it can also help adults. In much of today's society losing a pet is not considered a major loss. But to many people, it's a catastropic event with no one to share it with who understands. It's apparent the author does not only understand but has learned the way through this extremely difficult time.
This is a wonderful tool to help get through your grief of a beloved companion's death, no matter what your age.

And a Puzzle to Die On: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Hall, Parnell)

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not as good as the rest.
Inelegant but still fun
deliciously convoluted amateur sleuth mystery

And a Puzzle to Die On: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Hall, Parnell)
Parnell Hall
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ASIN: 0553802445
Release Date: 2004-10-26

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When nerdy cruciverbalist Harvey Beerbaum throws a birthday bash for Cora Felton at the Bakerhaven Library, it's no surprise that the centerpiece, a huge cake decorated like a crossword puzzle, is a complete bust--until a corpse thrown from the second floor stacks hits it dead center and fills in 14 down. Cora may hate birthdays almost as much as she hates crossword puzzles--but when it comes to solving crimes, no one can hold a candle to the Puzzle Lady.

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not as good as the rest........2007-02-02

I've read all of the puzzle lady novels and have enjoyed them all, but this one is not up to par. First, the cursing has escalated both in frequency and severity. Before, it was an occasional "he-- or sh--", but now it's gone to more unexceptable ones & pops up much more often. This one is also too much about Cora. There is very little interaction w/the people who make the stories good. Her antics are way over the top & the solution is one that the reader couldn't possibly see coming. That's not all bad, I suppose, but it needs to have some line to follow & this is way out there. I'm about to start the next one, but if this style keeps up, it will be the last.

Inelegant but still fun.......2005-01-04

Enlisted to investigate whether reasonable doubt exists that repugnant Darryl Daigue actually committed the murder he was convicted of 20 years ago, Cora "The Puzzle Lady" Felton stirs up one hornets nest after another in "And a Puzzle to Die On." It's the sixth in Parnell Hall's series featuring Felton and the regular gang in Bakershaven, Connecticut, and if you've enjoyed any of Hall's previous novels you'll no doubt like this one.

This is a cozy with a slight edge: The violence is muted; the dialogue is pretty tame by crime novel standards; but Cora is a chain-smoking, foul-mouthed (compared to most cozy characters) old broad with an attitude. The fun is following along from one riotous chapter to the next, listening to the banter among the characters, getting lost in a comic misadventure that's light as air. If you enjoy that kind of thing -- and Hall is quite adept at carrying readers along on a wild ride with few hard bumps or crash landings -- this book is for you. You'll be able to ignore the implausible, hopelessly convoluted plot that exists solely to puzzle the reader. After finishing the book, I still wasn't sure what had happened -- but I didn't care all that much. Hall had entertained me for a few hours.

I had read the first in this series, "A Clue For the Puzzle Lady," and after reading this most recent entry, I'll go ahead and read the others. As a rule, I don't enjoy cozies. But Hall has a nice touch and a good sense of pacing, and this series provides a welcome change of pace for a reader who usually prefers a crime novel with a harder edge and bleaker vision.

One side note: A glaring error in the dust jacket copy has me wondering if the folks at Bantam even read the book. The copy twice refers to Bakersfield instead of Bakershaven.

deliciously convoluted amateur sleuth mystery.......2004-10-27

She is known as the puzzle lady but it is really her publicity shy niece who is the puzzle constructor. Cora's favorite pastime is solving real life murder mysteries, which is why she agrees to lawyer Becky Baldwin's proposition. Becky wants Cora to find out if convicted murderer Daryl Daigue really killed seventeen year old Anita Dryer two decades ago. Depending on what Cora digs up, Becky will decide whether she wants to take the case.

Sara visits Darryl in prison; he acts like a criminal but insists that he was working at the time Anita was killed and he was covering for Ricky Gleason, the actual killer. Before leaving the prison, Warden Profack subtly warns Cora not to work on Darryl's case. Sara find that admonition suspicious and keeps digging which leads to her being followed by a private detective who is murdered at Cora's birthday party. Later, someone throws a rock through her window and she is arrested for absconding with a toy poodle that belongs to a woman who was also murdered because she had something that the killer wanted. The truth about who hired Becky and the two murders comes out when Cora has her day in court.

AND A PUZZLE TO DIE ON is a deliciously convoluted amateur sleuth mystery in which everyone connected to the case has a hidden agenda. The protagonist is in fine form as she breaks into offices and homes, steals what turn out to be significant, winds up spending a night in jail, and refuses to conform to court etiquette. Parnell Hall has written a complex who-done-it that has the requisite number of red herrings and misleading clues.

Harriet Klausner

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With seven large jigsaw puzzles, this book is a great interactive way to meet Peter Rabbit and his family. Follow Peter, his sisters, and Mrs. Rabbit through a busy day, and build a different nine-piece puzzle on each spread. Puzzle pieces are color-coded, for easy sorting, and the illustrations match the puzzle images, so they can be used for reference. Bright and lively Peter Rabbit Seedlings art is perfect for making puzzles, and this book is sure to be a favorite, providing hours of fun.

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"First restrain, then blockade, finally destroy!" was the war cry of the celebrated 1920s writer and World Chess Championship aspirant Aron Nimzowitsch. Subsequently eclipsed by his classic My System, this pioneering work (The Blockade) has now been rescued and published, with a new translation, for the very first time in dual-language format (English and German). The Editor, Philip Hughes, webmaster of the Uncrowned Kings website, has delved into chess history and provided extensive appendices in order to bring the reader a better picture of chess in the 1920s and particularly 1923-4. The chess philosophy developed by Aron Nimzowitsch, the Father of Modern Chess and the godfather of Hyper-modernism, clearly instructs the chess student on many important aspects of the game. The teachings of The Blockade reflect on the chessboard the military thinking of the day, trench warfare and strangulation, as exemplified in the recently concluded First World War. Nimzowitsch's insights remain relevant today and should be regarded as essential reading for the improving player. The introduction to this new edition of The Blockade is written by Grandmaster Ray Keene, author of a celebrated biography of Nimzowitsch and chess correspondent of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator and the International Herald Tribune.

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Synopsis.......2007-07-11

"First restrain, then blockade, finally destroy!" was the war cry of the celebrated 1920s writer and World Chess Championship aspirant Aron Nimzowitsch. Subsequently eclipsed by his classic My System, this pioneering work (The Blockade) has now been rescued and published, with a new translation, for the very first time in dual-language format (English and German). The Editor, Philip Hughes, webmaster of the Uncrowned Kings website, has delved into chess history and provided extensive appendices in order to bring the reader a better picture of chess in the 1920s and particularly 1923-4. The chess philosophy developed by Aron Nimzowitsch, the Father of Modern Chess and the godfather of Hyper-modernism, clearly instructs the chess student on many important aspects of the game. The teachings of The Blockade reflect on the chessboard the military thinking of the day, trench warfare and strangulation, as exemplified in the recently concluded First World War.

Nimzowitsch's insights remain relevant today and should be regarded as essential reading for the improving player.

The introduction to this new edition of The Blockade is written by Grandmaster Ray Keene, author of a celebrated biography of Nimzowitsch and chess correspondent of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator and the International Herald Tribune.

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Created especially for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, these unique playing cards are die-cut in the shape of the ancient Egyptian sarcophagus of Nes-mut-aat-neru (c. 700-675 B.C.). Hieroglyphics and motifs of gods and goddesses and rich gold ink accents adorn each of the cards. Both versions include 2 decks (55 cards per deck). Cards measure 1-3/4" x 5-3/4". Packaged in a cardboard box adorned with hieroglyphics.

Die Hard: Vendetta (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

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It's Time for Revenge
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What Happened After Incy-Wincy Climbed Up The Spout Again?

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After the rain washes Incy-Wincy Spider out of the water spout, he needs a new home! Open the gatefold pages so Spider can check the space between the bricks, under the stones, inside the box, and behind the plank. But nothing's right--they're all too small, too dark, too full, or too dangerous. Will the Incy-Wincy Spider ever find a place that's just right? 16 pages (all in color), 4 x 4.

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What Happened After Incy-Wincy Climbed Up The Spout Again?.......2001-02-23

"Incy-Wincy Spider climed up the water spout, Down came the rain and washed the spider out, Out came the sun and dried up all the rain, And Incy-Wincy Spider climed up the spout again." Everyone as a child has learned, and loved, the song of Incy-Wincy. Katie George's "Incy-Wincy" is a wonderful children's book that tells the rest of the story that the song leaves out; what happened to Icny-Wincy after he climed up the spout again? The first page of the book starts out with the song. After the song, Incy decides that since he was washed out of his home, that he should look for a new place to live--a wise decision. The full-paged illustrations consist of many circles and curves, and are brightly colored with shades of blue, green, yellow, and red. The text is very large, bold, and easy to read. There are also repeated phrases which allows children to make predictions and be involved in the reading. This book is also interactive, for each place that Incy explores the child lifts a flap to discover who has already inhabited the space. Best of all, the book includes an Incy finger puppet which the child holds throughout the story and velcroes to the fold-out page of the spider web at the end of the book. This book is a delight and will be enjoyed by all small children.

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