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Like a Rip Van Winkle who returns to his hometown to find everything changed, Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York, the city he left eleven years ago. Walking the streets like a ghost, he quickly establishes three relationships that explode his carefully protected loneliness. The first is with the young couple with whom he agrees to exchange addresses. But from the moment he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to exchange his loneliness for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose allure makes him return to what he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of feelings and the body. . The second relationship is with a character Zuckerman knew as a young man: Amy Bellette, partner and muse of Zuckerman's first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff. Amy, irresistible in the past, is now an old woman consumed by illness. The third relationship is with E.I.'s aspiring biographer. Lonoff, a young literary hound who will do and say anything to gain access to Lonoff's "big secret."