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Plot Summary of Zuckerman Unbound
"ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND is a novel published in 1981.

Nathan Zuckerman is now a reknown writer; his fourth novel, Carnovsky, has become a bestseller and Zuckerman is the target of the People Press. But with celebrity appear new problems! Nathan is harrassed by a mysterious man who threatens to kidnap and kill his mother in Miami if the young successful writer doesn't give him $50,000 in cash in the next 48 hours. Furthermore, his own father is agonizing in Florida and Nathan must rejoin his family and witness the last hours of the dying man. "
Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar

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