The Anatomy Lesson – Philip Roth

The Anatomy Lesson, by Philip Roth. Published in 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. First Trade Edition, First Printing, stated. Preceded by the signed limited Franklin Library edition. Original unclipped dust jacket. Near fine.

The writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction-pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his life. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to the next-from orthopedist to osteopath to neurologist to psychiatrist-but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. So begins Philip Roth’s strangely comic new novel.