{"product_id":"zuckerman-unbound-9780679748991","title":"Zuckerman Unbound","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"masterful\" novel (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e American Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a bestselling writer whose life is falling apart--all because of his great good fortune.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky (\"Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?\"), but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if \"target\" may be more than a figure of speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eZuckerman Unbound, \u003c\/i\u003ethe notorious novelist Nathan Zuckerman retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians' Prize for \"the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460697788690,"sku":"9780679748991","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b82a6264-97b9-49e9-8bd6-8be91048b478.jpg?v=1730045446","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zuckerman-unbound-9780679748991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}