The Ghost Writer
Author | : Philip Roth |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2011-06-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781446401347 |
ISBN-13 | : 1446401340 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Ghost Writer written by Philip Roth and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...