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Funny parts are excellent, but too much soul-searching baggage (

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tzelman | Feb 16, 2008 |

Nathan Zuckerman is a Jewish novelist who has finally struck it big with "Carnovsky", a satiric comedy which is widely assumed to be based on his own family growing up. The book follows Zuckerman's struggles to deal with his new-found fame and fortune, and the problems it has caused for his relations with his family, particularly his dying father and younger brother. Well-written and intriguing, although it is sometimes difficult to feel much empathy for as fragile a persona as Nathan Zuckerman seems to be. I would assume this to be based on Philip Roth's own experiences, except he makes such an obvious point that Zuckerman's own readers are mistaken in so doing, that it seems to be one of the messages of the book. (

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burnit99 | Feb 17, 2007 |

This is bad for Roth but good compared to other regular fiction. Being famous for writing something dirty, like Roth. Interesting. (

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ragwaine | Dec 12, 2006 |

Listened to tape. Wanted to read a Roth book. Was Ok but ending seemed to be abrupt. (

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Series (with order)

Zuckerman Bound (2)

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Zuckerman Unbound

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1981

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Nathan Zuckerman

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New York Times Best Books of the Year (1981)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1981)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0099477564, Paperback)

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.

In Zuckerman Unbound—the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound—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!

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