- American Novelists, Novelists in fiction, Novelists, American novelists in fiction
After eleven years of solitude working on his New England mountain as a writer, Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York to confront a turbulent city in the wake of September 11, as well as the aging Amy Bellette, one-time muse to his first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff.
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, W F Howes Ltd, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780099516088
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- American Novelists
- Novelists in fiction
- Novelists
- American novelists in fiction
- Fiction
- Nathan Zuckerman (Fictitious character)
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Zuckerman, Nathan (Fictitious character)
- American fiction
- 20th century
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Zuckerman, nathan (fictitious character), fiction
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictio
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