[Signed] The Counterlife. ROTH, Philip: [Fine] [Hardcover]

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xvi., 324 pages, specially commissioned double-page frontispiece illustration by Herbert Tauss, silk red ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, 8vo., [xxxii], 647pp., with a portfolio of drawings by the artist, reference maps, silk ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, all edges blocked in gilt, bound in quality full red morocco leather, covers blocked with ornate gilt designs, spine gilt decorated in compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering. A fine bright clean copy. This LIMITED FIRST EDITION of The Counterlife, is the true first edition of the book and precedes the trade edition, has been Privately Printed, and personally SIGNED by Philip Roth exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. A total of 201 various classic First Editions by various authors were issued by the Franklin Library from 1983 until they ceased publishing in 2000. These books are highly collectible and are no longer available directly from the publisher. The Counterlife (1986) is a novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the fourth full-length novel to feature the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman. When The Counterlife was published, Zuckerman had most recently appeared in a novella called The Prague Orgy, the epilogue to the omnibus volume Zuckerman Bound. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, The Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence. Illuminating these lives in free-fall and transformation is the acrobat mind of novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey; a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire; a church in London's West End; or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank. Shot through with head-turning dualities, as daring as it is moving, The Counterlife reinvents the novel with style, wit and grace.