Zuckerman Unchained is the second part of Philip Roth's famous trilogy about the writer Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's alter ego. Here Zuckerman is already over thirty, he is the author of a sensational bestseller that turned the heads of the public in the late 1960s and made Zuckerman a literary “star.” On the streets of Manhattan, fans not only annoy him with unsolicited advice and homegrown criticism, but also pester him with threats. This is frightening, especially after the recent assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Fame ruins a celebrity's life. Zuckerman begins to shun old friends, breaks up with his wife, and his younger brother breaks up with him. And all because a writer’s dream came true: he created a world bestseller...