Masiero, Pia. Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books: The Making of a Storyworld.

Roth studies is now a crowded field. There are a biannual journal – Philip Roth Studies – hundreds of articles and more than thirty books devoted to the works of the man who is, by common consent, the best living American novelist. In this context it is difficult to make an original scholarly contribution, but Masiero succeeds admirably, in two respects: firstly, hers is the first monograph to focus on what she calls ‘the Zuckerman books’; secondly, she is the first Roth critic to produce a b...