Adam Thomas

Zuckerman Bound: a trilogy and epilogue

By Philip Roth

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3/2/25, 7:03:17 AM

Lots of time passes ... I completely overhaul my website and travel down a million rabbit holes. Many notes were never to be taken on this sharp little set of novels.

THE ANATOMY LESSON

Zuckerman is dealing with the deaths of each of his parents. And estrangement from his brother. And is in a death spiral of a lack of productivity. And is drowing it all in a parade of the classic vices (that need not be notated.)

3/25/25, 12:28:53 PM

Zuck is going to Chicago to become a medical doctor. Also to run from his harem, and his rivalry with the Harvard critic Appell, whom he telephoned in a fit of rage just before departing. Zuck is gradually smoking a joint in the airplane lavatory, disobeying the no smoking in this lavatory directive, and pretending to be a pornographer to his seatmate.

4/1/25, 1:06:27 PM

Zuck is loaded out of his mind and gourd, commandeering a rented limousine, going to get his friend Bobby's father to take him to the graveyard to decorate his late wife's grave before the encroaching snow storm.