false 29747 15 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 ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and sidewalk 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.<br><br>In <b>Zuckerman Unbound</b>&#8212;the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue <i>Zuckerman Bound</i>&#8212;the notorious novelist Nathan Zuckerman 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! 3100519 1981 Zuckerman Unbound total:565|5:122|4:238|3:169|2:30|1:6| 565 2135 698 37 4 1 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 12:38:49 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 06:09:52 -0800 2008
Progressively, he detaches himself from his third wife, his New York anonymity, his dream that he'll be ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Oct 10 23:25:13 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 23:25:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 05:40:59 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 19:34:17 -0800 2009
I love the quote on the back of the book, from the Village Voice: "Not since Henry Miller has anyone learned to be as funny and compassionate and brutal and plaintive in the space of a paragraph." Personally, what I've read of Henry Miller (Tropic of Canc...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:54:42 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 19:17:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 21:25:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 17:15:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 03:51:55 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 09:50:59 -0800 2009
I enjoyed this book. I was reluctant at first, as I often am when I begin something. But a good crack on The New School helped me let down my guard. Ultimately I think this must be both a representat...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 08:55:26 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 09:23:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 20 05:45:30 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 05:45:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 09:22:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 09:30:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 13:26:07 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 17:52:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 14 18:12:01 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 20:55:54 -0700 2007
One other--much m...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 18:38:14 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 18:38:14 -0700 2007 Zuckerman Unbound specifically tells the fictionalized story of Roth's own fame post-Portnoy's Complaint - while the entire novel is an o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 08:25:45 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 08:28:25 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 29 09:01:04 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 09:04:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 12:16:54 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 12:28:04 -0700 2009 ]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 01 11:22:32 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 09:12:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Apr 09 08:05:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 08:06:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 17:01:19 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 17:01:48 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 08:22:11 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 08:22:27 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 31 09:46:04 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 09:53:01 -0700 2008 romp. In it, Roth deals with the worst aspects of celebrity without seeming big-headed. It's usually hard for me to relate to the rich, the famous; but in Zuckerman Unbound Roth lets fly with an insanely imaginative tale of stalkers, Hollywood damsel...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=29747