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020 _a9780140097696
024 _a15789699
050 _aPS3568.O855
082 _a813.54
100 1 _aPhilip Roth
245 1 _aThe Counterlife
260 _bPenguin Books
300 _a371 pages
520 _aThis radical work, whose protagonist is the novelist Nathan Zuckerman, ranges from a Christmas Carol service in London's West End to a Sabbath evening celebration in Israel's occupied West Bank. It suceeds in evoking both the nationalist militancy within modern Israel and the coded but palpable manifestations of anti-Semitism in establishment England.
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