The Anatomy Lesson
The Anatomy Lesson
Author: Philip Roth
Desc: 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.