num_pages: 291
description: At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka and marijuanaThe third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roths's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
language: English
title: ANATOMY LESSON, THE
titlecomplete: ANATOMY LESSON, THE (RE-ISSUE)
characters: Milton Appel, Nathan Zuckerman, Mr. Freytag, Diana Rutherford, Bobby Freytag, Ricky
genres: Classics, Fiction, The United States Of America, Jewish, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Audiobook, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 3401
places: Chicago, Illinois, New York City, New York
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman, Zuckerman Bound
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage