{"product_id":"the-ghost-writer-philip-roth-9780063499690","title":"The Ghost Writer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power--the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale--is superb.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Writer\u003c\/i\u003e introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution. If she were, it might change his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of the trilogy and epilogue \u003ci\u003eZuckerman Bound\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is about the tensions between literature and life, artistic truthfulness and conventional decency--and about those implacable practitioners who live with the consequences of sacrificing one for the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 006349969X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063499690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517155258623,"sku":"9780063499690","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7e17e10-7691-4184-8c69-79ab45dcc0fd.jpg?v=1778730276","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ghost-writer-philip-roth-9780063499690","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}