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Book Description
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.
At Lonoff's, ZuckermContinue
Critics
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theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010
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Philip Roth’s House of Fiction
The Ghost Writer is Philip Roth’s best novel yet. Certainly it is his most ingenious. But this familiar way of putting things may contain a mistake, a mistake which is part of the subject-matter of Roth’s book. ‘Best novel yet’ implies a future of pr ... (read full critics)
lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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The first Zuckerman book. The young Zuckerman was visiting his idol - a recluse write, E. I. Lonoff, and the stories were streaming out from all his encountering, the writer, and wife, and ex-student/lover.
Roth has habitually mixed the reality and imagination together into the story. The reader co ... (continue)
artie said on Feb 1, 2010 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 192 Pages
- Edition: 1st Vintage International ed
- ISBN-10: 0679748989
- ISBN-13: 9780679748984
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Aug 01, 1995
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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| 9780679748984 | Paperback | $12.95 | $11.65 | bn.com |
| $14.00 | $10.49 | The Book Depository | ||
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Philip Roth: The Ghost Writer
(This is the first book in the Zuckerman series. See also Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy and Exit Ghost.) I’ve developed a tentative taste for Philip Roth over the past few years, so with his forthcoming novel Exit Ghost being ... (read full critics)