Zuckerman Unbound

Philip Roth author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:2nd Jun '05

Should be back in stock very soon

Zuckerman Unbound cover

'He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph' Melvyn Bragg

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. 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...

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…

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 *

ISBN: 9780099477563

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 170g

240 pages