Description
An aging writer, Nathan Zuckerman, is forced into a reckoning with middle age when an undiagnosable pain drains his will to create and leaves his inner life crowded with doubt and despair. As he withdraws from the work that once defined him, he begins to imagine a radical alternative—turning toward medicine—not as escape, but as a way to understand the body and the self. Around him, a shifting constellation of friends and lovers exposes the fault lines of his identity: grief and ambition in the people who seem to have “made it,” and the complicated, sustaining presence of women who offer both intimacy and refuge. In Philip Roth’s incisive, unsparing style, the novel becomes a darkly comic meditation on art, illness, and the desperate human need to make meaning when the body—and the mind—won’t cooperate.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage
Published Jan 1, 1995
304 pages
ISBN: 9780099476610
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Details
First Published
1983
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth.