Nov 12, 2009
The Anatomy Lesson | The Anatomy Lesson
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: 1973
- Setting: Primarily New York City and Chicago, Illinois
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Art or artists, Chicago, Jews or Jewish life, Creative process, Ethics, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
- Locales: New York, NY, Chicago, IL
Characters Discussed
Nathan Zuckerman, the protagonist, a successful writer and author
of the notorious best-selling novelCarnovsky. For eighteen months, he has been suffering
inexplicably from extreme neck and back pains that prevent him from extensive reading and even
from writing, though he feels he has nothing left to write about. To make matters worse, he has
turned forty. He lives alone, and to help ease his pain he not only drinks and smokes marijuana
but also has a bevy of four girlfriends who visit him at different times and cater to his needs,
including his...
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