num_pages: 336
description: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionThe Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence.Illuminating these lives in free-fall and transformation is the acrobat mind of novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, 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 in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank. Shot through with head-turning dualities, as daring as it is moving, The Counterlife reinvents the novel with style, wit and grace.
language: English
title: The Counterlife
titlecomplete: The Counterlife
characters: Nathan Zuckerman
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Religion, Roman, Jewish, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5010
places: West Bank
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage