Description
A young writer, Nathan Zuckerman, arrives at the home of the celebrated novelist E.I. Lonoff, hoping to learn from a master—and instead finds himself pulled into a night of unsettling conversation, creative rivalry, and intimate literary reckoning. As Zuckerman listens, watches, and tries to make sense of Lonoff’s legacy, the boundaries between mentorship and manipulation, admiration and resentment, begin to blur. With Roth’s sharp, confessional intelligence and his signature blend of wit and psychological intensity, the novel explores how stories are made, how reputations are built, and how the act of writing can both reveal and distort the self. At its core, this is a meditation on authorship, influence, and the uneasy costs of becoming a writer in a world that never stops rewriting you.
Available Editions
paperback
G. K. Hall
Published Jan 1, 1980
248 pages
ISBN: 9780816130696
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Details
First Published
1979
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth.