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Zuckerman Unbound: Philip Roth

Zuckerman Unbound: Philip Roth

by PhilipRoth (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky, but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if 'target' may be more than a figure of speech. In Zuckerman Unbound - the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound - the notorious novelist retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother...and all because of his great good fortune.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 0099477564
ISBN 13: 9780099477563
Book Overview: 'He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph' Melvyn Bragg

Media Reviews
Elegant and furious... Witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph -- Melvyn Bragg
It is a) funny, b) sparkling prose, c) to-the-point short, d) genuinely moving. * Financial Times *
A comic stroll in a hall of mirrors * Newsweek *
Masterful * New York Times Book Review *
It was bold of Roth to write a novel about being famous...a comic stroll in the hall of mirrors * Newsweek *
Author Bio
Philip Roth (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for `the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004'. Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award `for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship' and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose `scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature'. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize.