Exit Ghost

ISBN-13: 9780307387295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str.

Philip Roth

Opis

Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, finds himself involved--as he never wanted or intended to be--with love, mourning, desire, and animosity.

Recenzje

[Roth's] prose is as assured and inviting as ever.... Exit Ghost delivers pages of great, sad power. The Washington Post Book World

This book is latter-day Roth at his intricately thoughtful best. The New York Times Book Review

Even in the face of death these characters are vivid and alive.... Roth is without a doubt one of the greatest living American writers, if not the greatest. The San Francisco Chronicle

Intricate, artful, and pressing. The New Yorker

O autorze

PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. 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. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. 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." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. 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. He died in 2018.