A review by guyarchard
The Counterlife by Philip Roth

5.0

A master writer… prob my favourite Roth novel. It asks if being a man means anything at all, and if so what the essential quality of being a man is. It likewise asks what the essential quality of being Jewish is, if anything. The characters are all acting out a performance of some sort, seen through the eyes of unreliable narrators. It’s very cleverly layered.