{"product_id":"books-zuckerman-bound-by-philip-roth","title":"Zuckerman Bound","description":"The comedy of neuroses, as Roth practices it, has much of the elegance of an 18th-century comedy of manners, but it also allows itself plenty of latitude. ZUCKERMAN BOUND has room for farce, when Zuckerman spends a night with an Irish film star whose steady lover is Fidel Castro; as well as for a full, accomplished treatment of a grim routine, the death of a Jewish father. But mainly it has one great comic character, the sad and threatening Alvin Pepler, ex-Marine and ex-Tv celebrity, now alleging the theft of his private hang-ups, which are on the same lines as Portnoy's, for use in the famous novel. In this chapter Dickens and Waugh live again' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507941204241,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780099515111.jpg?v=1778138305","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-zuckerman-bound-by-philip-roth","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}