Exit Ghost

Name: Exit Ghost
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN: 9781436112109

Author: Philip Roth

Series: Nathan Zuckerman #9

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/09/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series. Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets of New York after so many years away, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.

About Philip Roth

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for AMERICAN PASTORAL. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

“Exit, ghost”—in Hamlet (and Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and so on). “Reading/writing people, we are finished, we are ghosts witnessing the end of a literary era"—Lonoff, in The Ghost Writer “. . . The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly”—Roth, Exit......more

Goodreads review by Adam

And with this I come to the end of the Zuckerman books. I can't imagine reading this w/o the context of the earlier writing, particularly without The Ghostwriter, which this neatly bookends. As a stand-alone work, it, alone of the Zuckermans, wouldn't quite function. But as the last chapter in a mas......more