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The Ghost Writer
A Literary Fiction Novel by Philip Roth
Subgenres:
- Jewish Fiction,
- Writers & Writing,
- Psychological Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Literary fiction obsessed with writers and their mentors
- Stories where imagination blurs with reality in secluded settings
- Questions about artistic truth versus personal responsibility
The novel that first introduced the Pulitzer Prize–winning author's most acclaimed character, Nathan Zuckerman, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, who meets a haunting young woman at the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol.
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 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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