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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Random House
ISBN-100099477572
ISBN-139780099477570
eBay Product ID (ePID)176390812
Product Key Features
Book TitleGhost Writer
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicLiterary, Jewish
GenreFiction
AuthorPhilip Roth
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight5 oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisWhen 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...