num_pages: 240
description: 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…
language: English
title: Zuckerman Unbound
titlecomplete: Zuckerman Unbound
characters: Nathan Zuckerman
genres: Jewish, 20th Century, American, Americana, Audiobook, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4698
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman, Zuckerman Bound
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Random House