The Counterlife: A Novel

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

“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

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an al...