The Ghost Writer
ISBN:
9780224017640 (0224017640)
Publish date: 1979
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 180
Edition language: English
I enjoyed this one, although there was a section in there that went a little slower for me, but that was my own fault for never having read The Diary of Anne Frank. I liked how Roth depicted the life, or should I say anti-life, of a serious writer, how it affects those around them, and how their st...
It was very strange to read this in Amsterdam, having picked it up in a used bookstore in the U.S. and having no notion of its contents. Roth begins with the themes that manhood begins with attending to consequences, and recognizing the fallibility of one's idols. It then veers engagingly and precip...