The Ghost Writer

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The Ghost Writer

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American literature
Realism and metafiction
…Jewish novelist named Zuckerman, especially The Ghost Writer (1979), The Anatomy Lesson (1983), and, above all, The Counterlife (1987). Like many of his later works, from My Life as a Man (1974) to Operation Shylock (1993), The Counterlife plays ingeniously on the relationship between autobiography and fiction. His best later…
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…Jewish novelist named Zuckerman, especially The Ghost Writer (1979), The Anatomy Lesson (1983), and, above all, The Counterlife (1987). Like many of his later works, from My Life as a Man (1974) to Operation Shylock (1993), The Counterlife plays ingeniously on the relationship between autobiography and fiction. His best later…
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Philip Roth
…of Roth’s most important novels, The Ghost Writer (1979), which introduced an aspiring young writer named Nathan Zuckerman, who is Roth’s alter ego. Two later novels, Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983), trace his writer-protagonist’s subsequent life and career and constitute the Zuckerman trilogy. These three works were…
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…of Roth’s most important novels, The Ghost Writer (1979), which introduced an aspiring young writer named Nathan Zuckerman, who is Roth’s alter ego. Two later novels, Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983), trace his writer-protagonist’s subsequent life and career and constitute the Zuckerman trilogy. These three works were…
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