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The Ghost Writer — Philip Roth
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Published:
Aug-1979 (Hardcover)
May-1982 (Paperback) -
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Time Period:
Contemporary -
Pages:
224 -
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The novel that first introduced the Pulitzer Prize�"winnning author's most acclaimed character, Nathan Zuckerman, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, who meets a haunting young woman at the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol.
"Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power -- the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale -- is superb." -- The Washington Post
At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution. If she were, it might change his life.
The Ghost Writer is about the tensions between literature and life, artistic truthfulness and conventional decency -- and about those implacable practitioners who live with the consequences of sacrificing one for the other.
"Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power -- the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale -- is superb." -- The Washington Post
At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution. If she were, it might change his life.
The Ghost Writer is about the tensions between literature and life, artistic truthfulness and conventional decency -- and about those implacable practitioners who live with the consequences of sacrificing one for the other.
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