Zuckerman novels
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Zuckerman novels volume 1
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An aspiring young writer visits the peaceful country home of his literary idol and discovers a hotbed of suppressed emotions and disappointments and discovers love with the legendary Anne Frank, or so he thinks.
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Zuckerman novels volume 2
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"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...
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Zuckerman novels volume 3
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Plagued by a debilitating, seemingly undiagnosable ailment, the great author Nathan Zuckerman is living out his middle-aged years on his back under the care of his harem. He can't write or type without spasms of pain shooting through his neck and shoulders, yet doctors by the hundreds are unable to offer an effective treatment. Could this pain be his penance for writing the indecent "Carnovsky?" Zuckerman ponders this as he puffs his joint before...
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Zuckerman novels volume 5
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English
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Now Nathan's married brother, Henry the dentist, is suffering from impotence as a result of taking heart medication--and he's willing to risk his life in a dangerous operation just to regain his sexual prowess in order to satisfy the needs of his office assistant.
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This novel follows Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk"; the author investigates the century's most divisive...
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Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
9) Exit ghost
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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...