Zuckerman Unbound
$24.08
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2005
Summary
Reissued in electric new backlist style in October 2016, Zuckerman Unbound is the second in Philip Roth’s famous series of Zuckerman Books.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099477563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099477564 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2005 |
| Weight: | 173g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
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 *
Fluent, funny * Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up *
[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 *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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