THE COUNTERLIFE

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alt er seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, envelopi ng intel...[Read more]