Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

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.

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 *

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood 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 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.

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ISBN 13	9780099516088
ISBN 10	009951608X
Title	Exit Ghost
Author	Philip Roth
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2008-09-04
Number of pages	304
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