Zuckerman Unbound

By Philip Roth

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Philip Roth's 1981 novel, the second Zuckerman book, finds Nathan Zuckerman in New York in 1969, suddenly famous after the success of his scandalous novel Carnovsky. Strangers treat him as his own character, an odd fan named Alvin Pepler follows him around, his marriage has ended, and his father's death in Florida forces him to face what his book has cost his family.

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• Barack Obama: “Some of the great books by Jewish authors like Philip Roth or Saul Bellow, they are steeped with this sense of being an outsider, longing to get in, not sure what you're giving up — what you're willing to give up and what you're not willing to give up.”