Houghton Mifflin
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Featuring: Nathan Zuckerman
304 pages ISBN: 0618915478 EAN: 9780618915477 Hardcover Add to Wish List
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.
nnWalking the streets like a revenant, he quickly
makes three connections that explode his carefully
protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom,
in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee
post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will
return to city life. But from the time he meets them,
Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic
challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose allure draws
him back to all that he thought he had left behind:
intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body.n
nThe
second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman's youth,
Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman's first
literary hero, E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is
now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory
of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan
the solitary path to a writing vocation.n
nThe third
connection is with Lonoff's would-be biographer, a young
literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get
to Lonoff's "great secret." Suddenly involved, as he never
wanted or intended to be involved again, with love,
mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an
interior drama of vivid andpoignant possibilities.n
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