Name: The Ghost Writer
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Author: Philip Roth

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philip Roth

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

179

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4x13.2x1.2 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0679748989

ISBN13

9780679748984

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Ghost Writer "

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 first volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, 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.

Philip Roth

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Philip Milton Roth was an American writer of Jewish origin, known mainly for his novels, although he also wrote short stories and essays.

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