The Counterlife (1986) is a novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the fourth full-length novel to feature the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman...
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Nathan Zuckerman (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
in the 1980s, most radically in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock. By the mid-1990s, though, Roth tamped down on the self-referentiality. He reintroduced...
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Philip Roth (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National...
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James Wolcott (category The Village Voice people)
April 2021, 898 pp., ISBN 978 0 224 09817 5; Ira Nadel, Philip Roth: A Counterlife, Oxford, May 2021, 546 pp., ISBN 978 0 19 984610 8; and Benjamin Taylor...
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Deception (novel) (category Novels republished in the Library of America)
The Counterlife. The book is written almost entirety in dialogue and is presented as the research notes for Roth’s earlier novel The Counterlife. The...
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novel The Counterlife, McInerney has said that Russell’s life exists as a “counterlife” to his own, allowing him "...to continue exploring the life of...
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1987 fiction prize for The Counterlife. The book was enthusiastically received. Entertainment Weekly's critic L.S. Klepp gave the memoir an "A": "Blunt and...
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Lionel Shriver (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
Sunday Book Review. The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2018 Wood, James (July 22, 2013). "Books: The Counterlife". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no...
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Pope Paul VI (redirect from The Pilgrim Pope)
English edition: Nikitaroncalli: Counterlife of a Pope Posner, Gerald (2015). God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. Simon and Schuster...
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Judah P. Benjamin (category Emigrants from the British West Indies to the United States)
pp. 388–389. Evans, p. xiii. Hoberman, Michael (11 August 2020). "The Counterlife of Judah P. Benjamin". Tablet. Retrieved 30 November 2022. Berman,...
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the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel The Counterlife and a New Yorker essay on Saul Bellow. Roth's trip to Israel to interview...
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The last page of the story is also quoted in full in the Philip Roth novel The Counterlife. The novella is referenced in 4321 by Paul Auster, as the favorite...
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metafictional works partly set in Israel: The Counterlife (1986) and Operation Shylock." After Roth's death, The New York Times asked several prominent writers...
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National Book Award for Fiction (category 1950 establishments in the United States)
Since 1987, the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers." The panelists...
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motherhood. Owen Richardson, reviewing the novel in The Age, compared it to Philip Roth's The Counterlife. A reviewer for The Point praised Forster's use of local...
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Asymmetry (novel) (category Novels about the September 11 attacks)
Page 71. The rule about Chekhov's gun going off in a later chapter is used in the "Judea" and "Aloft" chapters of The Counterlife. Page 252. The military...
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Philip Roth. ^ I The Nathan Zuckerman appearing in this book is not the same as the one appearing in later books, but a creation of the fictional writer...
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The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, established in 1976, is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle...
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"each gambit has its answer or 'counterlife'", Berne would note how everyone has positive forces in them "counter to the plot of [their] script – a counterscript";...
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Counterlife, Philip Roth (1986) Crewel, Gennifer Albin (2012) Cults of Unreason, Christopher Evans (1974) Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom (2020) The Dawn...
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Paco's Story (category Novels set during the Vietnam War)
Members of the literary community had widely regarded Toni Morrison's novel Beloved as a virtual shoo-in for the prize (with The Counterlife by Philip...
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English edition: Nikitaroncalli: Counterlife of a Pope Posner, Gerald (2015). God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. Simon and Schuster...
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Bernard Avishai (category Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Life, not "Counterlife"". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 12, 2015. Avishai, Bernard. "Saving Israel from itself: A secular future for the Jewish state"...
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"Aktion" 1911-18, Munich, 1964 Julijana Ranc, Alexandra Ramm-Pfemfert. A counterlife, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2004 Oliver Pfohlmann: Die Aktion 1911 - 1932...
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Larry Heinemann (category United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War)
Members of the literary community had widely regarded Toni Morrison's novel Beloved as a virtual shoo-in for the prize (with The Counterlife by Philip...
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Ira Nadel (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada)
Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (NY: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2008) Critical Companion to Philip Roth (Facts on File, 2011) Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Oxford University...
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This is a list of the winners of the National Jewish Book Award by category. The awards were established in 1950 to recognize outstanding Jewish Literature...
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Augusto Roa Bastos (category Recipients of the Order of the Liberator General San Martin)
Supremo (1974; I the Supreme) Vigilia del Almirante (1992; Vigil of the Admiral) El fiscal (1993; The Prosecutor) Contravida (1994; Counterlife) El trueno entre...
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"What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?" is an informal opinion poll conducted in 2006 by the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR)...
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Hana Wirth-Nesher (category Immigrants to the United States)
Publications, Ltd. p. 62. ISBN 0-8039-7695-X. Gutman, Huck, ed. (1991). "The Counterlife: Israeli Perspectives on American Literature". As Others Read Us: International...
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