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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. 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.

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"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
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Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Ghost Writer is the first in Philip Roth's famous series of Zuckerman Books

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  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 0679748989
  • ISBN 13 9780679748984
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages192
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