The Ghost Writer

作者 Philip Roth著
出版社 Vintage
出版时间 2005年6月
ISBN 9780099477570
定价 94.00

内容简介

THEGHOSTWRITERintroducesNathanZuckermaninthe1950s;abuddingwriterinfatuatedwiththeGreatBooks,discoveringthecontradictoryclaimsofliteratureandexperiencewhileanovernightguestinthesecludedNewEnglandfarmhouseofhisliteraryidol,E.I.Lonoff.AtLonoff's,ZuckermanmeetsAmyBellette,ahauntingyoungwomanofindeterminateforeignbackgroundwhoturnsouttobeaformerstudentofLonoff'sandwhomayalsohavebeenhismistress.Zuckerman,withhisactive,youthfulimagination,wondersifshecouldbetheparadigmaticvictimofNazipersecution.Ifshewere,itmightchangehislife-ThefirstvolumeofthetrilogyandepilogueZuckermanBound,THEGHOSTWRITERisaboutthetensionsbetweenliteratureandlife,artistictruthfulnessandconventionaldecency-andaboutthoseimplacablepractitionerswholivewiththeconsequencesofsacrificingonefortheother.objectwidth="480"height="303"paramname="movie"value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B6uL8SUYqeY?fs=1andamp;hl=en_GBandamp;rel=0"/paramparamname="allowFullScreen"value="true"/paramparamname="allowscriptaccess"value="always"/paramembedsrc="http://www.youtube.com/v/B6uL8SUYqeY?fs=1andamp;hl=en_GBandamp;rel=0"type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="480"height="303"allowscriptaccess="always"allowfullscreen="true"/embed/object

作者简介

In1997PhilipRothwonthePulitzerPrizeforAmericanPastoral.In1998hereceivedtheNationalMedalofArtsattheWhiteHouse,andin2002receivedthehighestawardoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters,theGoldMedalinFiction,previouslyawardedtoJohnDosPassos,WilliamFaulkner,andSaulBellow,amongothers.HehastwicewontheNationalBookAward,thePEN/FaulknerAward,andtheNationalBookCriticsCircleAward.In2005,PhilipRothwillbecomethethirdlivingAmericanwritertohavehisworkpublishedinacomprehensive,definitiveeditionbytheLibraryofAmerica.Thelastoftheeightvolumesisscheduledforpublicationin2013.