- Published: 6 October 2005
- ISBN: 9780099481355
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $30.00
The Counterlife
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- Published: 6 October 2005
- ISBN: 9780099481355
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $30.00
Magnificent...splendid... I hope The Counterlife felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me
New York Times Book Review
Roth is a comic genius... In this book (wonderfully sharp, worryingly intense) he is an electrifier
Martin Amis
Unquestionably his masterpiece
John Banville
Boisterously serious, dense, fizzing and formally audacious... The final thing that needs to be said about The Counterlife...is that it's fucking funny
Julian Barnes, London Review of Books
No other writer combines such a surface of colloquial relaxation with such a dense load of mediating intelligence - Roth has never written more scrupulously or, in spots, more lovingly
John Updike, New Yorker