Zuckerman, having undergone a radical prostatectomy, returns to New York City seeking treatment for incontinence. Having made a hasty retreat in response to a series of antisemitic death-threats, the aging Nathan Zuckerman has secluded himself in idyllic rural western Massachusetts, devoting himself entirely to his writing, with brief forays into the small town of Athena. Having departed from New York City eleven years ago, Zuckerman, now seventy-one, reemerges, with characteristic, cryptic panache, "out of character for the character I 'd become" (p. When Nathan Zuckerman, in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost, descends from his mountain retreat to reenter the teeming world of the twenty-first century, he finds himself much too easily seduced by the very things of this world that he'd hoped to elude.
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