The Washington Post, January 6th, 1987
Uh oh. Five minutes into the interview and Philip Roth is already annoyed, sitting very straight in his hotel suite chair and growing tense around the mouth. "Where to begin to answer that question," he says coolly. From beneath the emphatic brows fly signals of impatience and reproach. At issue is his latest novel, "The Counterlife." A couple of years ago, Roth had been saying that he had completed his multivolumed chronicling of that notorious man of letters, Nathan Zuckerman. "He's finished, in more ways than one," Roth himself had written of Zuckerman in a short squib in The New York Times...
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