Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (English) Paperback Book

Description: Exit Ghost by Philip Roth 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reissued in electric new backlist style, Exit Ghost is the final book in Philip Roths famous Nathan Zuckerman seriesReturning 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 them, Zuckerman wants to exchange his solitude for the erotic allure of the young woman Jamie, who draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind- intimacy, and the play of heart and body.Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities. Notes Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York after being away for 11 years and finds that everything has changed. Roths previous book Everyman was a popular recommendation in the Books of the Year round-ups, and he is widely regarded as being the greatest living American writer. Consistently enthralling...full of tart humour and dancing intelligence John Dugdale, Literary Review Author Biography Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus - a collection of stories, and a novella - for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoys Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of Americas finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.Roths lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously. Review There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers * Times Literary Supplement *If 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 Zuckermam 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 curel vulnerability of the body we live in without choice * Times Literary Supplement * Promotional The incomparable master Roth returns with the final Zuckerman book. Review Text There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers Review Quote There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers Promotional "Headline" The incomparable master Roth returns with the final Zuckerman book. Details ISBN009951608X Author Philip Roth Pages 304 Year 2008 ISBN-10 009951608X ISBN-13 9780099516088 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Short Title EXIT GHOST Language English Residence Newark, US Birth 1933 Publisher Vintage Publishing UK Release Date 2008-09-04 Publication Date 2008-09-04 AU Release Date 2008-09-04 NZ Release Date 2008-09-04 Audience General Alternative 9781407065465 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:14732163;

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