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In Exit Ghost it is revealed that Lonoff also had an incestuous affair with his sister – which led to his writer's block – and the fact that while content to teach in oblivion, he never published again. American politics forms a backdrop to the novel. Zuckerman, Davidoff and Logan watch the results of the 2004 presidential election together.
Oct 1, 2007 · October 12, 2021. Growing Old With Fiction. Set in Manhattan in 2004, Philip Roth's novel "Exit Ghost" (2007) is a product of the writer's old age which plays tantalizingly with both biography and autobiography. The book is a story of the nature of fiction and creative writing and of the vicissitudes of aging.
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'Exit Ghost' is written from the viewpoint of 71-year-old Zuckerman, a successful author who suffers from permanent urinary incontinence and impotence as a result of a radical prostatectomy. The novel is coloured by his sense of inadequacy as he struggles to defend the posthumous reputation of an admired author, Lonoff, against Kliman, his scandal-seeking would-be biographer.
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Exit Ghost. Hardcover – 4 Oct. 2007. Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other ...
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About Exit Ghost. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the final installment of the renowned Zuckerman series, a novel about love, mourning, desire, and animosity by “one of the greatest living American writers” (San Francisco Chronicle), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral.
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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.
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Nov 11, 2008 · Exit Ghost. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the final installment of the renowned Zuckerman series, a novel about love, mourning, desire, and animosity by “one of the greatest living American writers” (San Francisco Chronicle), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral.
