Summary
Reissued in electric new backlist style, Exit Ghost is the final book in Philip Roth’s famous Nathan Zuckerman series.
Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman — incontinent and impotent — comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets, he quickly makes several connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. In a rash moment, he offers to swap homes with a young couple. And from the moment he meets …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099516088 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009951608X |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers
‘There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers’ * TLS *
‘Its subject embraces mortality, its sentences ring with vitality, and Roth reminds us why “the transforming exigencies of prose fiction” still matter even as the light begins to die’ * Mail on Sunday *
‘Taken together the Zuckerman novels read as both a noisy New Jersey Kaddish for 50 years of American history and an extraordinary contemporary “Song of Myself”’ * New Statesman *
‘At his best, Philip Roth constructs his novels from huge blocks of material, to produce an effect that is overpowering’ * Observer *
‘Here is a noble revelation of the cruel vulnerability of the body we live in without choice’ * TLS *
‘Consistently enthralling…full of tart humour and dancing intelligence’ * Literary Review *
‘Nobody who has followed him – one of the great writers of our time – thus far, should miss it’ * Scotsman *
‘A great book, a necessary book’ * Sunday Herald *
‘There is something magnificent about Philip Roth’s undimmed rage and life-lust…As a body of work, these novels may have changed the way that readers think about their own mortality’ * Sunday Telegraph *
‘This is a book about the importance of literature that lasts’ * Daily Telegraph *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on May 22, 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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