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The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer
Author: Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer begins with a young writer's search for the spiritual father who will comprehend and validate his art and whose support will justify his inevitable flight from a loving but conventionally constricting Jewish middle class home. In his quest, Nathan meets E.I. Lonoff and family. Shocking, comic and sad by turns, The Ghost Writer ...  more »
ISBN: 230372
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 180
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Publisher: Farrar,Strauss &Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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aardvark avatar reviewed The Ghost Writer on + 157 more book reviews
It's Philip Roth -- of course it's good!
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Not my favorite of Roth's but it is also one of his early books, which showed the talent of a very skillful young writer. It is the first of the Nathan Zuckerman series. The section on Anne Frank is really exquisite.


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