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Description edit
The Ghost Writer 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. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Nathan Zuckerman: "a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books"
- E.I. Lonoff: great writer, recluse, Nathan's "literary idol"
- Amy Bellette: Add a description of this character.
- Hope
- Abravanel
- Andrea
- Margot
- Anne Frank
- Manny
- Dencombe
- Sidney
- Betsy
- Essie
- Otto Frank
- Dr. Hugh
- Miss Giddings
- Mrs. Wapter
- Felix
- Henry James
Setting & Locations edit
1950's rural New England
- New York
- Boston
- America
- Amsterdam
- Newark
- New England
- Europe
- Stockbridge
- Florence
- New Jersey
- Auschwitz
- Chicago
- London
First Sentence edit
It was the last daylight hour of December afternoon more than twenty years ago - I was twenty-three, writing and publishing my first short stories, and like many a Bildungsroman hero before me, already contemplating my own massive Bildungsroman - when I arrived at his hideaway to meet the great man.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Roth (Author)
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1979: Fiction)
- Pulitzer Prize (Finalist, 1980: Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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