The Counterlife

About this book

Stories of people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, ranging from a quiet suburban New Jersey dentist to a genteel Englishwoman and an Israeli settlement leader.

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • authors, fiction
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1987
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, psychological
  • nathan zuckerman (fictitious character)
  • national book critics circle award winner
  • novelists
  • self-actualization (psychology)
  • zuckerman, nathan (fictitious character), fiction