- Fiction in English, Fiction, Jewish men, Nathan Zuckerman (Fictitious character)
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E.I.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Cape, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Vintage
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780816130696
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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictio
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