{"product_id":"the-anatomy-lesson-9780679749028","title":"The Anatomy Lesson","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e--and one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century--\"a ferocious, heartfelt book\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) featuring Nathan Zuckerman whose life is about to unravel when he comes down with a mysterious affliction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a terrible pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic Hermione Lee has described as \"a manner at once ... brash and thoughtful ... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians' Prize for \"the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327026925842,"sku":"9780679749028","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a63eb93-0b4a-4b46-99db-abcc42380bf8.jpg?v=1727708476","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-anatomy-lesson-9780679749028","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}