In "The Anatomy Lesson"—Philip Roth's rich, satisfyingly complex conclusion to his Zuckerman trilogy, of which "The Ghost Writer" and "Zuckerman Unbound" formed the first two parts—the writer Nathan Zuckerman has a pain….
It is a pain that has forced Zuckerman to give up writing and spend most of his time lying on the floor in his apartment on a play mat….
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