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Philip Roth's 28th book is, it seems, the final novel in the Zuckerman series, which began in 1979 with The Ghostwriter. A 71-year-old Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York after more than a decade in rural New England, ostensibly to see a doctor about a prostate condition that has left him incontinent and probably impotent. But Zuckerman being Zuckerman and Roth being Roth, the plot is much more complicated than it at first appears. Within a few days of arriving in New York, Zuckerman accidentally encounters Amy Bellette, the woman who was once the muse/wife of his beloved idol, writer S.I. Lonoff; he also meets a young novelist and promptly begins fantasizing about the writer's young and beautiful wife. There's also a subplot about a would-be Lonoff biographer, who enrages Zuckerman with his brashness and ambition, two qualities a faithful Roth reader can't help ascribing to the young, sycophantic Zuckerman himself. As usual, Roth's voice is wise and full of rueful wit, but the plot is contrived (the accidental meeting with Amy, for example, is particularly unbelievable) and the tone hovers dangerously close to pathetic. In the Rothian pantheon, this one lives closer to The Dying Animal than Everyman. (Oct.)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* The ninth novel to feature famous writer Nathan Zuckerman finds Roth's close alter-ego in the "winter" of his life: at age 71, suffering the depressing side effects of prostate surgery and living a hermit's existence in rural Massachusetts, in self-imposed exile from people and technology. This agonizingly real yet gorgeously rendered novel has a relatively limited time frame: one week, when Zuckerman returns to New York City, his former home, for a surgical procedure, this event conspiring to make him believe he wants to regain society ("having the effect of rousing the virility in me again, the virility of mind and spirit and desire and intention and wanting to be with people again and have a fight again"), specifically to pursue feminine pulchritude anew, despite his impotence and incontinence. Roth connects this latest Zuckerman novel most closely to, of all of its predecessors in the cycle, the first one, The Ghost Writer (1979); thus, the ninth one emerges as a sequel to the first. Zuckerman's entrée back into the "real" world, leaving behind for a while his hermetically sealed one on a Massachusetts mountaintop, involves significant encounters with the young woman—now old—who was the much-younger girlfriend of a famous novelist Zuckerman paid a lengthy call on back in 1956 (which was the material of The Ghost Writer). This novel of renewal inevitably becomes a tale of acceptance of one's irreversible descent to oblivion. Hooper, Brad
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