The Anatomy Lesson

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—and one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century—”a ferocious, heartfelt book” (The New Yorker) featuring Nathan Zuckerman whose life is about to unravel when he comes down with a mysterious affliction.

"Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels." —Time

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a terrible pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, in...