Zuckerman Bound (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: 1965-1976
- Setting: Newark, the Berkshires, New York City, Miami Beach, Chicago, and Prague
- Principal Characters: Nathan Zuckerman, Victor (Doc), Selma Zuckerman, Leopold Wapter, E. I. Lonoff, Hope Lonoff, Amy Bellette, Alvin Pepler, Caesara O’Shea, Gloria Galanter, Diana Rutherford, Jenny, Jaga, Milton Appel, Zdenek Sisovsky, Olga Sisovsky, Gilbert Carnovsky
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers
- Locales: New York, NY
The Novels
The trilogy and epilogue gathered together in Zuckerman Bound trace twenty years in the literary and personal life of Nathan Zuckerman. His story begins in The Ghost Writer, narrated by Zuckerman in 1976, which recounts events of twenty years earlier. At odds with his father and pillars of his community such as Judge Leopold Wapter over the content of his first stories, which present unflattering portraits of Jewish characters, Nathan visits the isolated Berkshire home of E. I. Lonoff, “the most famous literary ascetic in America,” to submit himself...
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