Exit Ghost
by Philip Roth
American NovelistsNovelists in fictionNovelistsAmerican novelists in fictionFiction
4.0
Open LibraryAbout this book
After eleven years of solitude working on his New England mountain as a writer, Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York to confront a turbulent city in the wake of September 11, as well as the aging Amy Bellette, one-time muse to his first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff.
Themes & subjects
American NovelistsNovelists in fictionNovelistsAmerican novelists in fictionFictionNathan Zuckerman (Fictitious character)
About the author
Philip Roth
1933 – 2018
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictio…
Reviews
No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.
Quotes
No quotes yet.
