The Ghost Writer

By Philip Roth

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Philip Roth's 1979 novel, the first of his Zuckerman books, is set in 1956, when Nathan Zuckerman, a young writer, visits the reclusive author E. I. Lonoff at his farmhouse in the Berkshires. There he meets Lonoff's young assistant, Amy Bellette, and imagines that she is Anne Frank, alive after the war, as he worries about his family's anger at his stories.

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