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The Ghost Writer
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 27 April 2023
- Run Time
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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...
©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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'Roth's best novel yet'
London Review of Books
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‘I only had to read the two opening sentences to realize that I was once again in the hands of a superbly endowed storyteller’
New York Review of Books
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‘Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power—the ability to relight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale—is superb’
Washington Post
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‘His prose is immaculate yet curiously plain and unostentatious, as natural as breathing’
Al Alvarez
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'Roth's greatest and darkest mystery'
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Roth's best novel yet
London Review of Books
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I had only to read the two opening sentences to realize that I was once again in the hands of a superbly endowed storyteller
New York Review of Books
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Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power - the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale - is superb
Washington Post
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His prose is immaculate yet curiously plain and unostentatious, as natural as brething
Al Alvarez
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Details
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duration
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 April 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529914917
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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...©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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