Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/06/2005
ISBN: 9780099477563
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 195g
RRP: £8.99
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…
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/06/2005
ISBN: 9780099477563
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 195g
RRP: £8.99
Elegant and furious... Witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph
It is a) funny, b) sparkling prose, c) to-the-point short, d) genuinely moving.
A comic stroll in a hall of mirrors
Masterful
It was bold of Roth to write a novel about being famous...a comic stroll in the hall of mirrors