Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/09/2008
ISBN: 9780099516088
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he quickly makes several connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. In a rash moment, he offers to swap homes with a young couple. And from the moment he meets them, Zuckerman wants to exchange his solitude for the erotic allure of the young woman Jamie, who draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, and the play of heart and body.
Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/09/2008
ISBN: 9780099516088
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers
If its subject embraces mortality, its sentences ring with vitality, and Roth reminds us why "the transforming exigencies of prose fiction" still matter even as the light begins to die
Taken together the Zuckermam novels read as both a noisy New Jersey Kaddish for 50 years of American History and an extraordinary contemporary "Song of Myself"
At his best, Philip Roth constructs his novels from huge blocks of material, to produce an effect that is overpowering
Here is a noble revelation of the curel vulnerability of the body we live in without choice