Critical Reception
Critic John Lahr, in New York Magazine, called the novel "fascinating." In Time, R. Z. Sheppard praised Roth's "comic genius." In The New York Times Book Review, critic Harold Bloom said of the three collected Zuckerman novels, "'Zuckerman Bound' merits something reasonably close to the highest level of esthetic praise for tragicomedy."
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