The Anatomy Lesson
At forty, unable to work, Nathan Zuckerman lies on a padded mat on his floor with a neck and shoulder pain no specialist can name, attended in shifts by four women and sustained by rage at the critic who has spent a decade calling his books a disgrace to the Jews. He decides the cure is to give up writing and enter medical school in Chicago. Roth's third Zuckerman book makes physical agony funny without ever making it less than real.
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- continues ↑ Zuckerman Unbound
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