{"product_id":"the-ghost-writer-9780679748984","title":"The Ghost Writer","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe novel that first introduced the Pulitzer Prize-winnning author's most acclaimed character, Nathan Zuckerman, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, who meets a haunting young woman at the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power--the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale--is superb.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution. If she were, it might change his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Writer\u003c\/i\u003e is about the tensions between literature and life, artistic truthfulness and conventional decency--and about those implacable practitioners who live with the consequences of sacrificing one for the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians' Prize for \"the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514300043538,"sku":"9780679748984","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01255086-54a1-428c-b6d0-2dc156cfffff.jpg?v=1730978594","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ghost-writer-9780679748984","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}