{"product_id":"the-anatomy-lesson-a-novel-isbn-9780063499966","title":"The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e is a ferocious, heartfelt book … lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions.” —John Updike, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe third novel in the Zuckerman series, \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful tragicomedy that follows Roth's famed protagonist into his darkest days and most hilarious encounters as he comes down with a mysterious affliction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt forty, Nathan Zuckerman begins exhibiting strange symptoms: a pain emerges in his neck and works its way down his body, finally taking over his spirit. He can barely move, much less write, and all his doctors are baffled. Zuckerman turns to liquor, weed, and painkillers to cope, as well as submitting to the lavishing attentions of four women who ply him with food, stories, and sexual favors. As time stretches on and the pain will not abate, Zuckerman's quest for relief escalates into wilder and more confused adventures until he can hardly tell the difference between the symptoms and the treatment.  \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment…. [He] writes America’s most raucously funny novels. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of Roth’s most unsparing and revealing books … forceful and startling.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Anatomy Lesson\u003c\/em\u003e is a ferocious, heartfelt book … lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Anatomy Lesson\u003c\/em\u003e is breathtaking stuff, fiction of grit and energy and pizazz.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a beautifully worked and comic novel by a writer at the height of his powers.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588049121509,"sku":"NP9780063499966","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-anatomy-lesson-a-novel-isbn-9780063499966","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}