Philip Roth
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| Title | : | Zuckerman Unbound (Zuckerman Bound #2) |
| Author | : | Philip Roth |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 2011 by Random House (first published January 9th 1981) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Literature. American. Literary Fiction |
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Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds himself accosted on all sides, the target of admonishers, advisers, would-be literary critics, and – worst of all – fans.An incompetent celebrity, ill at ease with his newfound fame, and unsure of how to live up to his fictional creation’s notoriety, Zuckerman flounders his way through a high-profile affair, the disintegration of his family life, and fends off the attentions of his most tenacious fan yet, as the turbulent decade of the sixties draws to a close around him.
But beneath the uneasy glamour are the spectres of the recently murdered Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and an unsettled Zuckerman feels himself watched…
Describe Books Conducive To Zuckerman Unbound (Zuckerman Bound #2)
| Original Title: | Zuckerman Unbound |
| ISBN: | 0099477564 (ISBN13: 9780099477563) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Zuckerman Bound #2, Complete Nathan Zuckerman #2 |
| Characters: | Nathan Zuckerman |
Rating Appertaining To Books Zuckerman Unbound (Zuckerman Bound #2)
Ratings: 3.83 From 3820 Users | 199 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Zuckerman Unbound (Zuckerman Bound #2)
Zuckerman Unbound (1981), the second in Roths Zuckerman Bound trilogy, is a sort of comic romp that turns gradually tragicomic. Certainly serious, in the end. Not Tolstoy, exactly, but maybe leaning to Chekhov, with some echoes of Kafka in there. The novel features the writer Zuckerman, 20 years after the events of The Ghost Writer, which had Zuckerman at 20, having published a few stories. At this point, Zuckerman is a famous writer, with several books published, and he doesnt handle fame well."You don't have to play the person you were cast as, not if it's what's driving you mad." (p.213)Apparently I'm working my way through the Nathan Zuckerman books now, which I'm not complaining about at all. So far, so good. This one takes place immediately after Zuckerman has achieved sweeping fame for a salacious book that drew heavily from his family upbringing (perhaps meditating upon Roth's experience after Portnoy's Complaint made him [in]famous for all the wanking with the family dinner
Roth is my favorite author. I first read "The Dying Animal," which was somber but to me, so beautiful. "Zuckerman Unbound" is the second book with Nathan Zuckerman as protagonist. Roth clearly had fun writing it. Zuckerman, is an exciting young, novelist adjusting to the surprising level of fame garnered by his recently published novel. The portrayal of his aging parents and family is charming. His perspective on their Jewishness compared to his secularism is hilarious. He paints them with
So good. I will have to think more about this one. I loved parts and really liked other parts, but I also know later Roth is nearly perfect, so how do I give this one five stars? Ah, oh well, I'll cross that Carnovsky bridge tomorrow.
Even slightly better than The Ghost Writer.. amazing characters, beautiful prose.. 4*
It's hard to see these separately, all of them being part of the larger story, long chapters in a Zuckerman epic. But Roth seems considerably less angry for these novels which is refreshing after so much rage
Artists who write about their fame have always annoyed me, and I can't bring myself to admire Stardust Memories, but this is Philip Roth, and lesser Roth is so much more powerful than lesser Woody Allen. I'm starting to become obsessed and don't want to finish the summer without reading a majority of Roth's pre-nineties work --- I love esp. his seamless ability to digress into hilarious anecdotes without losing the pulse of the narrative and the sense that the paragraphs are coming to his
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