The Anatomy Lesson is the third novel in Philip Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman series. The story takes place in 1973 and follows novelist Nathan Zuckerman. The 40-year-old Zuckerman has not published a novel in several years and he is struggling with intractable chronic pain in his neck and shoulders. In addition, his parents have both died in the last few years, he has become divorced for the third time, and he has become estranged from his brother, Henry. To cope with his isolation, he becomes involved in sexual relationships with four different women, but he still struggles desperately with his various personal problems.
In 1974, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the book, but it al...
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One of the dominant voices of American-Jewish literature during the past two decades, Philip Roth has had an ambivalent, even troubled, response to the Jewishness of his congenial material. He was bor...
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[This entry was updated by S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) from her entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, pp. 202-234.]A major writer of twentieth-century ...
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The American author Philip Roth (born 1933) used his Jewish upbringing and his college days for the basis of many of his novels and other works.Roth used his experiences in growing up in the Weequahic...
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Biography EssayIn 1973, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the ...
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Philip (Milton) Roth
Philip Roth