Exit Ghost - (Vintage International) by Philip Roth (Paperback)

About the Book

Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, finds himself involved--as he never wanted or intended to be--with love, mourning, desire, and animosity.

Book Synopsis

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.

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. Now Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.

Revisiting the characters from Roth's much-heralded The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an astounding leap into yet another phase in this great writer's oeuvre.

Review Quotes

"[Roth's] prose is as assured and inviting as ever.... Exit Ghost delivers pages of great, sad power." --The Washington Post Book World

"This book is latter-day Roth at his intricately thoughtful best." --The New York Times Book Review

"Even in the face of death these characters are vivid and alive.... Roth is without a doubt one of the greatest living American writers, if not the greatest." --The San Francisco Chronicle

"Intricate, artful, and pressing." --The New Yorker

About the Author

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. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He 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." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.