Complete Nathan Zuckerman Series by Philip Roth

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  • My Life as a Man (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #0)
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    My Life as a Man (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #0)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1974

    At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen’s death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it... more

  • The Ghost Writer (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #1)
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    The Ghost Writer (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #1)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1979

    When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling... more

  • Zuckerman Unbound (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #2)
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    Zuckerman Unbound (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #2)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1981

    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... more

  • The Anatomy Lesson (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #3)
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    The Anatomy Lesson (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #3)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1983

    At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction--pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books... more

  • The Prague Orgy (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #4)
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    The Prague Orgy (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #4)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1985

    In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own... more

  • Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #1-4)
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    Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #1-4)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1985

    For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth "our foremost novelist since Faulkner." Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time... more

  • The Counterlife (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #5)
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    The Counterlife (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #5)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1986

    The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman... more

  • American Pastoral (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #6)
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    American Pastoral (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #6)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings · published 1997

    Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998)In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory—comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America... more

  • I Married a Communist (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #7)
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    I Married a Communist (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #7)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1998

    I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.In his heyday as a star—and as a zealous, bullying supporter of "progressive" political causes—Ira marries Hollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame... more

  • The Human Stain (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #8)
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    The Human Stain (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #8)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings · published 2000

    It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser... more

  • Exit Ghost (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #9)
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    Exit Ghost (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #9)

    Philip Roth

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2007

    Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude... more

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