Synopsis
Literature - A book in the Zuckerman series. 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.
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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"
"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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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copies. Clean. Store Stamped. --- --- THE GHOST WRITER --- (A book in the Zuckerman series) --- 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. --- OUR GANG --- The character of Tricky presents one of the greatest hypocritical opportunists, an unprincipled self-seeker in this satirical vision of a debased national leadership speaking a language that is designed to make lies sound truthful. . .See photos for additional content. . . Seller Inventory # 38369
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The Ghost Writer
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Random House Publishing Group, 1980
ISBN 10: 0449243222
ISBN 13: 9780449243220
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Ghost Writer
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Fawcett October 1980, 1980
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 222 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased and slanted spine. Occasional pen markings on text. Previous owner's writing on inside back cover page. Seller Inventory # 2iEc0023b
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