Exit Ghost

Resumen del libro

Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jaime, whose allure draws him back to all that
he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body.

The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman's youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman's first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation. The third connection is with Lonoff's would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff's 'great secret'. Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.

Haunted by Roth's earlier works the melancholy comedy of The Ghost Writer, the counterpoint of the imaginary and the real in The Counterlife, the distinctive dialogues of Deception Exit Ghost is a reminder of Roth's incomparable style and themes and an amazing leap into yet another
phase in this great writer's insatiable commitment to fiction.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Philip Roth x{0026}lt;/B (1933-2018) va obtenir el Premi Pulitzer el 1997 amb x{0026}lt;I Pastoral Americanax{0026}lt;/I . El 1998 va rebre la Medalla Nacional de les Arts a la Casa Blanca i, el 2002, el màxim guardó de l'Acadèmia Americana de les Arts i les Lletres, la Medalla d'Or de Narrativa, prèviament atorgada a John Dos Passos, William Faulkner i Saul Bellow, entre altres. Ha estat guardonat dues vegades amb el National Book Award, el PEN/Faulkner Award i el National Book Critics Circle Award.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P El 2005, x{0026}lt;I La conjura contra Amèricax{0026}lt;/I va rebre el premi de la Society of American Historians, concedit a la seva destacada novel-la històrica el 2003-2004 sobre un tema històric nord-americà , i el Premi W.H. Smith pel millor llibre de l'any, fet que va fer de Roth el primer escriptor que premiat dues vegades amb aquest guardó en els quaranta-sis anys d'història del premi.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P El 2005 Roth es va convertir en el tercer escriptor nord-americà viu, l'obra del qual va publicar la Library of America en una edició completa i definitiva. El 2011 va rebre la National Humanities Medal a la Casa Blanca, i va ser nomenat posteriorment el quart guanyador del Man Booker International Prize. El 2012 va guanyar el màxim guardó d'Espanya, el Premi Príncep d'Astúries, i el 2013 el de més prestigi de França, el Comandant de la Legió d'Honor.x{0026}lt;/P