The Ghost Writer
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The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 22, 2018
Ten years after Portnoy’s Complaint, Roth published The Ghost Writer, an exquisite short novel in which both irreverence and comedy (and, yes, masturbation, too) are subsumed into a tale that explores with an almost serene sense of creative control all of Roth’s earlier themes. Roth spent a half century turning sentences around themes of family and independence, ethnic identity and assimilation, artistic vocation and ordinary human pleasures, but he never turned them quite so gracefully as he does in The Ghost Writer.
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Steve Jump
Dec 2, 2018
I was lukewarm on Roth until this novel made me his slave.
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