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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679748984 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
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:
Review:
"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:
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
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
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679748984
- Author:
- 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.
