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The Anatomy Lesson
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HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780063499966
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 256
Language: English
The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book ... lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions. --John Updike, The New Yorker
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a terrible 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 Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
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