The Ghost Writer (the Complete Works of Philip Roth)
by H
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"The Ghost Writer" is the first in a series of literary adventures by Nathan Zuckerman. The 23-year-old protagonist Nathan Zuckerman has just published a batch of short stories and received an invitation from his most admired writer E. I. Lonoff to visit him at his home in the Berkshire Mountains. There, Nathan met the Lonovs and a female student they adopted, Amy Bellette. He was immediately attracted by Amy's unique charm. But what Nathan didn't expect was that in the process of getting along with his idol, the other person's wife Hope suddenly lost control. During the subsequent stay, Nathan discovered the affair between Lonov and Amy, and was even more shocked by Amy's bizarre experience as the original author of "The Diary of Anne Frank." At the same time, Nathan's past is also slowly unfolded from his own memories, about his growing up experience, and how he had a falling out with his family because of writing novels about Jewish family relatives... The novel uses first-person narrative, intertwined with flashbacks, interludes and other techniques, and is a masterpiece in American literature.
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