The Rake's Progress Giving Up The Ghost.(Giving Globally)(Books)('Exit Ghost')(Book review)

From: Newsweek | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Gates, David | Copyright information

Byline: David Gates

Roth first wrote about a Nathan Zuckerman in "My Life as a Man" (1974). Back then he was a novelist invented by another invented novelist, David Tarnapol. Then he got real.

Philip Roth puts his longtime alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, out of his misery. Roth won't miss him -- he's on to the next -- but what about us?

In Philip Roth's new novel, "Exit Ghost," a neighbor of his longtime protagonist, Nathan Zuckerman -- that Rothlike ...

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