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title: "The Ghost Writer"
brand: "philip roth"
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# The Ghost Writer

**Brand:** philip roth
**Price:** R$312
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- **What is this?** The Ghost Writer by philip roth
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The Ghost Writer

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## Customer Reviews

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    The rare occasion when flaws are elevating in nature...
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2018*

Two-thirds of the way through Roth's insular novel, his now-legendary narrator admits the following: "If only I could invent as presumptuously as real life! If one day I could just approach the originality and excitement of what actually goes on!"Encountering this classic piece of Roth's canon in this day and age, it is easy to find excuse to dismiss it for its flaws: a writer narrator inhabiting the home and ideas of another writer to comment upon the predicament of being a writer; the escapism from reality being an imagined reworking of Holocaust memory; the flatness of its female characters, embodying the misogyny Roth's critics love to devour.Except, it is these very "flaws" that injected this novel with life for me. Its insularity gave it a precision, and even a permission, to be honest without falling prey to the ambiguities of universalism that are far too often characterized by blandness more than any particular flavor. Its borderline-ridiculous escapism is, at broader view, the logical conclusion to one desiring so much to eclipse his reality as a writer--and the resulting indictment is indeed more universal than we give it credit for. And its misogyny is, if nothing else, honest, a clear look into the mind not only of a successful man but the successful male artist. And the consequences that follow.This book is mesmerizing in its layers, indeed.

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    Preparing for American Pastoral
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2019*

This small novella has many interesting features that will be delightful for those who enjoy Philip Roth's incredibly clear, elegant writing. The Ghost Writer does not have the power of his great novels, as language is relatively plain and without any stylistic digression, but as part of the evolution of Roth's creative thinking, it is clearly a first step towards the masterpiece American Pastoral. Roth here also sort of cathartically exorcizes some of his anxieties of influence (to use Harold Bloom's lingo), as he strives to surpass his predecessors, Liev Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Saul Bellow and... Anne Frank, and this is just fantastic imho...

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    In the beginning
  

*by C***G on Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2007*

Philip Roth has published steadily since the 1950's and attracts new readers all the time, who enter his world in media res.  For those not as familiar as others, allow me to provide context:  Nathan Zuckerman is a character who first showed up in Roth's fiction in the 1970's, and ever since has been considered the author's alter ego.  In 1979, Roth published THE GHOST WRITER, which takes Zuckerman back to his days as a young up and coming writer of literary fiction in the 1950's.  This is a terrific stand alone read, and it is also an excellent introduction to Zuckerman.Roth knows how to tell a story.  He knows where the bones of structure go, he knows how to order his information, deploy a flowing rhythm, adjust perspective and fashion a remarkable voice.  He knows how to be funny ha-ha and how to be funny, hmmm.  He is a writer of great economy who fits a lot of vision into a cleanly told story.  In this book, the young worshipful Zuckerman arrives at the Berkshire retreat of his idol, the famous writer E.I. Lonoff, for an evening of literary conversation over dinner and drinks.  Across the span of the evening, Zuckerman learns what a career of nothing but writing can do to a man and, more importantly, to his marriage.  He recalls his own family issues that have sprung up now that he has begun to write stories that portray middle class Jewish Americans in the glare of reality.  When it becomes late and Lonoff insists he stay the night, Zuckerman learns a lot more about Lonoff than was expected, and contemplates the mysterious graduate assistant who also stays, who inspires in the third movement of the book, an alternative history about Anne Frank.  Several different variations of meaning are wrung out of the term "ghost writer" in the course of less than 24 hours.

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