At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a
mysterious affliction--pure 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. The Anatomy Lesson 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." The
third volume of the trilogy and epilogue "Zuckerman Bound," The
Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of
Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
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