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'Consistently enthralling...full of tart humour and dancing intelligence' - Literary Review

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the moving final appearance of tragicomic hero Nathan Zuckerman.

Nathan Zuckerman returns, incontinent and impotent, to a changed New York after eleven years away. Walking the streets, he connects with a young couple who will explode his carefully protected solitude. Allured by the woman, Jamie, Zuckerman rashly offers to swap homes with them, and so begins his return to a life he thought was over: one of intimacy, and the play of heart and body.

Suddenly involved, as he neither wanted nor intended to be again, with love, with mourning, with desire and animosity, Zuckerman’s last act is an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.

‘There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers’
TLS

About Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.

Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.

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