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Violence
Barely any
Mild; the physical fragility of an old man
Language
Some
Moderate language; political anger is part of the register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult desire in an old man for a younger woman; the erotic imagination that outlives the body; nothing explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Very strong; the indignities of age and incontinence; desire and its impossibility; what America became; the final accounting of a literary life
What this book is about
The final Zuckerman novel brings Nathan back to New York in 2004 after nine years of seclusion in the Berkshires, incontinent and near-deaf from prostate treatment. He encounters a young couple who want his isolated home, a young woman who reawakens desire he thought was gone, and the political fury of the Bush years. Roth's farewell to Zuckerman is elegiac, angry, and deeply felt — a writer saying goodbye to the character who was his truest self.
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