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Philip Roth (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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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 mind 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, a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, a church in London's West End, or a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.

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12 hours and 14 minutes
Author

Philip Roth
Narrator

Malcolm Hillgartner
Audible release date

1 October 2016
Language

English
Publisher

Blackstone Audio, Inc.
ASIN

B01LZWMJY8
Version

Unabridged
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Audiobook
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Listening Length	12 hours and 14 minutes
Author	Philip Roth
Narrator	Malcolm Hillgartner
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Audible.com.au Release Date	01 October 2016
Publisher	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01LZWMJY8
Best Sellers Rank	134,777 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 141 in Jewish Literature (Audible Books & Originals) 411 in Judaism (Audible Books & Originals) 739 in Jewish Literature (Books)

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amantedofado

Perhaps the greatest novel I have ever read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2018

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Some background first. I will soon be 70, and for some reason I only discovered Philp Roth very recently, even though I knew his name well. I have a 4-year MA in English literature and have read heaven knows how many novels, including American ones. I have myself published 26 novels, many of them best-sellers. With that in mind, reading 'The Counterlife' was a major experience for me. I have never read anything so utterly complex yet perfectly readable. The different lives and outcomes for his characters, including himself as Zuckerman take the idea of mutlple lives to a level beyond anything else on that theme. If you only read one novel, make this it. Or, as I have been doing for the past few months, just reading everything Roth has written. One caution, though: I know a lot about Judaism, Israel, Yiddish and all such things. If you don't, use Google or just wallow in the section in the settlement in Judaea. Don't let that put you off this important novel, a classic among his other classics.

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Shantiq

Ponderous ponderous ponderous ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2017

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Ponderous ponderous ponderous ...
Never could you once accuse that man of levity every page is carved in sweat and effort; you can smell the rewrites in every line
Just plowed through 4 maybe 5 of his opuses and they all contain the same themes
● Marking himself as the man on the edge of his culture trying to meld with the world of gentiles ... always hunting the shiksa [the non-jewish woman] in an effort to break away from the straightjackets of tradition on every level
● And yet profoundly obsessed with the Culture in all its aspects as if a man who wants to run away but really cannot and the more he runs the deeper he is pulled into it ... into the history the rites the laws ... a sort of Semitic Chinese fingertrap ...
It must be hard being Roth ... this book here The Counterlife is one which flows fairly well bearing in mind the ponderousness mentioned earlier
As a reader you need to concentrate ... you are asked to partake in the effort of the genesis of the work and the travails of the culture
If Jewish History and Culture has no interest to you give it a wide berth; there is never much distance between the narrative and it all ... if it sometimes occupies your mind or if like the writer you are a 24-hour-a-day obsessive you will be at home here
But you are warned no levity here ... there was some in Portnoy /The Ghost Writer/Nathan Zuckerman/Zuckerman Unbound/The Anatomy Lesson/The Prague Orgy/
there is none in American Pastoral/The Plot Against America [the only one I could not finish/too grim]
These are the one I read ... I shall read others soon ... when I want seriousness
Some say P Roth should be "Nobelized" and that he has not been due to the "smut" of some works ... personally i read a good writer a thorough professional ; and able storyteller ; but is he great writer .... ?

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Mr David M Hallett

Intriguing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2017

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By throwing up fictitious characters adopting extreme positions albeit in a confusingly constructed book, Roth explains the Jewish psyche, both the Zionist and the American liberal Jew, like I've never encountered. Read it and understand the legacy of the Jewish holocaust creating as it has the state built on hate

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Wilfred Lamb

Roth est là

Reviewed in France on 7 April 2012

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Livre difficile, le point de vue du 'narrateur' et des personnages changengent souvent; au lecteur de créer les liens lui-même. Il semble que le projet de l'auteur tourne autour de la question de la 'juivité'.

Le dernier chapitre, brillant, pose justement cette question. Est-ce que l'attitude de Nathan dans sa dernière lettre, dans laquelle il essaie de regagner sa fiancée,ne montre plutôt comment son approche de la vie est totalement incompatible avec la 'passivité' de Maria?

Un récit épatant à plusieurs niveaux; un noeud difficile à défaire, aussi complexe que la vie elle-même! Bravo!

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corine

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on 6 May 2015

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love roth

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