Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1981] FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX

First printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.   Mild shelf wear to dust jacket and edges.  Book itself is in beautiful shape.  Reads like new!

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.