At forty the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction pure pain beginning in his neck and shoulders invading his torso and takingpossessi... » 

At forty the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction pure pain beginning in his neck and shoulders invading his torso and takingpossession of his spirit. Zuckerman whose work was his life is unable towrite a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another but none canfind a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wondersif the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wonderinghis dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana.The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound The AnatomyLesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes inall of Roths fiction as well as some of the fiercest.BK0807Roth «