At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious afflictionâ€”pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit.

The Anatomy Lesson

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious afflictionâ€”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, marijuana, and Percodan.

The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic Hermione Lee has described as "a manner at once...brash and thoughtful... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority." The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Red
IsAdultProduct
Height 8
Length 5.19
Weight 0.54895103238
Width 0.69
ReleaseDate 1996-01-30
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Red
IsAdultProduct
Height	8
Length	5.19
Weight	0.54895103238
Width	0.69
ReleaseDate	1996-01-30
NumberOfItems	1

The Anatomy Lesson