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    Exit Ghost

    Written by Philip Roth

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series. Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets of New York after so many years away, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateMay 9, 2008
    ISBN9781436112109
    Author

    Philip Roth

    PHILIP ROTH (1933–2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004” and the W.H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice. In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2012 he won Spain’s highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France’s highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor.

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      I love the way Roth writes about old age and regret, it’s so beautiful and even though I’m young, I can see it in the eyes of those around me who are old and are experiencing all those feelings he describes.

      What spoils his writing, for me and some might disagree but it makes me cringe, is the way he writes about women. They are just fantastical objects and not people, and feel like the only reason they are there are to ‘justify’ the perverted ranting of a desperate old man.

      If it was just this story then maybe I could attribute it to the character but it is in all of the stories I’ve read of his and it just makes me shudder. Such a talented writer can’t look past the opportunity of living out fantasies with beautiful women in his writing, I find that so sad.

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