The Counterlife

The Counterlife
First edition cover
AuthorPhilip Roth
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1986
Pages324 pp
ISBN978-0-374-13026-8
OCLC13904280
813/.54
LC ClassPS3568.O855 C6 1986

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.