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by Philip Roth

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I will say this right up front: Philip Roth is America's greatest living writer. And with the possible exceptions of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez, he is the world's greatest living writer. Everyone in literary circles (and most people in nonliterary circles) knows Roth by now. The author of Goodbye Columbus, the supposed "self-hating Jew." The author of Portnoy's Complaint, one of the funniest books ever written. The winner of nearly every major literary award in the '90s: the Pen/Faulkner, the National Book Award, the Pulitzer.

I will say this here: The Ghost Writer is Roth's best book. Published in 1979, the first of the Zuckerman Trilogy, The Ghost Writer introduces us to the young author, Nathan Zuckerman as he spends a weekend at the house of the brilliant writer E. I. Lonoff and a woman who may or may not be Anne Frank. The Ghost Writer is a short book, a powerful book, a funny book, a book that encompasses everything about Philip Roth's writing, Nathan Zuckerman's writing, and the relationship between the two that has since developed through many novels, until the brilliant postmodern communiqué between them at the conclusion of The Facts.

Philip Roth is our greatest living writer. The Ghost Writer is his best book. Treasure them both.
Recommended by Erik B.

I will say this right up front: Philip Roth is America's greatest living writer. And with the possible exceptions of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez, he is the world's greatest living writer.

Everyone in literary circles (and most people in nonliterary circles) knows Roth by now. The author of Goodbye Columbus, the supposed "self-hating Jew." The author of Portnoy's Complaint, one of the funniest books ever written. The winner of nearly every major literary award in the '90s: the Pen/Faulkner, the National Book Award, the Pulitzer.

I will say this here: The Ghost Writer is Roth's best book. Published in 1979, the first of the Zuckerman Trilogy, The Ghost Writer introduces us to the young author, Nathan Zuckerman as he spends a weekend at the house of the brilliant writer E. I. Lonoff and a woman who may or may not be Anne Frank. The Ghost Writer is a short book, a powerful book, a funny book, a book that encompasses everything about Philip Roth's writing, Nathan Zuckerman's writing, and the relationship between the two that has since developed through many novels, until the brilliant postmodern communiqué between them at the conclusion of The Facts.

Philip Roth is our greatest living writer. The Ghost Writer is his best book. Treasure them both.
Recommended by Erik, Powells.com

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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, 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.

Review:

"Roth's most controlled and elegant work...serious, intelligent, dramatic, acutely vivid, slyly and wickedly funny...seductive far beyond its brief efficiency." —Village Voice

"I had only to read the two opening sentences to realize that I was once again in the hands of a superbly endowed storyteller." —Robert Towers, The New York Review of Books

"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." —Washington Post

Synopsis:

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, 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.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, 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.

About the Author

In the 1990s Philip Roth won America’s four major literary

awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle

Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for

Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath’s

Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for

American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book

Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist

(1998); in the same year he received the National

Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the

National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife

(1986) and the National Book Award for his first book,

Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human

Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos

of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received

his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain’s W. H.

Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he

received the highest award of the American Academy of

Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six

years “for the entire work of the recipient.” In 2005 The

Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians

Award for “the outstanding historical novel on an

American theme for 2003—2004.” In 2007 Roth received the

PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679748984
Author:
Roth, Philip
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
American
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Jewish men
Subject:
Jewish men -- Fiction.
Subject:
Zuckerman, Nathan
Edition Description:
Vintage Intl
Series Volume:
No. 3309g
Publication Date:
August 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
8.05x5.21x.49 in. .44 lbs.