Ghost Of A Chance

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: November 16, 2007| Author: Cole, Diane | Copyright information

Ghost Of A Chance Despite the title of his new novel, Philip Roth's Jewish spirits are everywhere. Exit Ghost. By Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin, 292 pages, $26)

The title of Philip Roth's latest novel may be "Exit Ghost," but I wouldn't bet on the shades of Jewish ghosts past, present and future ever leaving Roth's imagination. Nor would I wish them to cease haunting him, feeding him as they do the raw, complex brew that spurs his creativity: the love and guilt, humor and rage, communa...

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