The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel

“The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book … lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions.” —John Updike, The New Yorker

At 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 wo...