A novel which features the literary novelist Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman, dogged by personal neuroses and ill-health, has to contend with a tough television celebrity, who accuses him of plagiarising his personal life, whilst watching his father's terminal illness move towards its sad conclusion.
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" It was bold of Roth to write a novel about being famous...a comic stroll in a hall of mirrors." -- "Newsweek"
" [Roth's] narrative hand is wonderfully sure, his comic timing worthy of the Ritz Brothers.... Not since Henry MIller has anyone learned to be as funny and compassionate and brutal and plaintive in the space of a paragraph." -- "Village Voice"
" Zuckerman Unbound is masterful, sure in every touch, as clear and economical of line as a crystal vase." -- "The New York TImes Book Review"
"It was bold of Roth to write a novel about being famous...a comic stroll in a hall of mirrors." --"Newsweek"
"[Roth's] narrative hand is wonderfully sure, his comic timing worthy of the Ritz Brothers.... Not since Henry MIller has anyone learned to be as funny and compassionate and brutal and plaintive in the space of a paragraph." --"Village Voice"
"Zuckerman Unbound is masterful, sure in every touch, as clear and economical of line as a crystal vase." --"The New York TImes Book Review"
Reissued in electric new backlist style in October 2016, Zuckerman Unbound is the second in Philip Roth's famous series of Zuckerman Books
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