In January, the Lost & Found Book Group will be reading Philip Roth's singular "The Counterlife", narrated once again by Roth's great skeptic and alter-ego, the novelist Nathan Zuckerman.
Click here to register for the January meeting.
It is a meditative, nuanced novel whose characters are relentlessly bedeviled by the prospect of a substitute existence that can alter their destiny. Like a master composer, Roth plays variations on this theme throughout the novel, giving his main character, Henry, who is Zuckerman's brother and suffering from a potentially ruinous heart condition, "counterlives" that take him from New Jersey to Gloucestershire, England to a settlement in Israel's occupied Left Bank.
As always, Roth's book is concerned with what it means to be a somewhat cynical and Jewish intellectual in a century irrevocably transformed by two world wars. It is a disturbing, funny and moving novel that only a writer as multifariously gifted as Philip Roth could write.
Click here to reserve a copy of the book. Please join us for our Zoom meeting on January 28, 2021! Feel free to enjoy an adult beverage during the discussion! We look forward to seeing you!
Lost & Found is about rediscovering lost 20th Century classics that have become
available once again. We meet on the last Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m.
Click here to register for the January meeting. For more information, email Gregory.
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