{"product_id":"the-anatomy-lesson-philip-roth-9780063499966","title":"The Anatomy Lesson","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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0063499967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063499966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517155324159,"sku":"9780063499966","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ce192e4-026d-47eb-819c-f7f479143ec6.jpg?v=1778730276","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-anatomy-lesson-philip-roth-9780063499966","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}