Ghost Writer, The
by Philip Roth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Temple X-Lib./Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374161895
- ISBN 13
- 9780374161897
- Seller
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Small library stamp, FLEP, phantom ghost of Residual glue from pocket removal BPD, else content appears as unopened, unread and unblemished with blue cloth covered boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear in DJ displaying minimal surface/edge wear as shown. Taped ID at Heel of spine.
Roth, one of the consistently great American writers of the past half-century, has written six novels featuring New York City Jewish writer, Nathan Zuckerman. In this, the second, Zuckerman, a young writer searching for a spiritual father who can understand and validate his art, believes he has found him in a man who lives as a semi-recluse in rural Massachusetts with his wife and a mysterious young woman of indeterminate foreign background.
When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of Amy's haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusions...
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Synopsis
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4371-122820
- Title
- Ghost Writer, The
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Illustrator
- Writers Fiction
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Temple X-Lib.
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374161895
- ISBN 13
- 9780374161897
- Publisher
- Farar, Straus, & Giroux, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 180 Pages
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