Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books:  The Making of a Storyworld
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Chapter 5: “Summoning People Out of Words”:
American Pastoral

139

5.1. “This is Where Life has Left Me”

139

5.2. “I Dreamed a Realistic Chronicle”

145

5.3. “He Had Brought Photographs”

152

Chapter 6: “What Else Is There?”:
I Married a Communist

163

6.1. “I’ve Had My Story”

163

6.2. “In the Shape of a Very Old Man”

166

Chapter 7: “The Confusion of a Human Biography”:
The Human Stain

183

7.1. “I Waited and Waited”

183

7.2. “As I Reconstruct It”

193

Chapter 8: “Into the Twilight of My Talent”:
Exit Ghost

213

8.1. “A Desperate Story of Unreasonable Wishes”

213

8.2. “It’s All a Matter of How, Isn’t It?”

223

Epilogue

231

Notes

239

Works Cited

257

Index

271