Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (2007, Hardcover)

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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100618915478
ISBN-139780618915477
eBay Product ID (ePID)60196472

Product Key Features

Book TitleExit Ghost
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, Literary
Publication Year2007
GenreFiction
AuthorPhilip Roth
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-102467
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsZuckerman may die. Roth will die. Readers will die. Literature lives on. Kirkus Reviews As usual, Roth's voice is wise and full of rueful wit... Publishers Weekly ...agonizingly real yet gorgeously rendered... Booklist, ALA, Starred Review
eBook FormatGlassBook
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisNathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roths nine Zuckerman books, finds himself involved--as he never wanted or intended to be--with love, mourning, desire, and animosity., Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body. The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman's youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman's first literary hero, E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation. The third connection is with Lonoff's would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff's "great secret." Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities. Haunted by Roth's earlier work The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer's insatiable commitment to fiction.
LC Classification NumberPS3568.O855E95 2007

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