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Exit Ghost

Philip Roth

2007292 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2007
first published
  • 2007Houghton Mifflin · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9780618915477
  • 2008Vintage Books · ENGISBN 9780099526445
  • 2008W F Howes Ltd · ENGISBN 9781407413884
  • 2008Vintage International · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9780307387295
  • 2008Penguin Random House · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780099516088
  • 2009Gallimard · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9782070120161
  • 2007Jonathan Cape · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780224081733
  • 2007Recorded Books · ENGISBN 9781428165168
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After eleven years of solitude working on his New England mountain as a writer, Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York to confront a turbulent city in the wake of September 11, as well as the aging Amy Bellette, one-time muse to his first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff.

How it feels

Emotional toneUnflinching

How it reads

Plot intensityCharacter driven
ComplexityLayered
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