Philip Roth's alter ego debuts in The Writer's Ghost: Nathan Zuckerman, the brilliant, crazy, controversial, and inimitable hero of nine of Roth's magnificent novels. In 1956, a story almost half a century long begins. Just one night in a strange house, an unexpected acquaintance with the mysterious beauty Amy Bellet - and now Zuckerman, balancing on the edge of reality and fiction, suspects that Amy may well turn out to be Anne Frank... Amy's secret identity leaves too many questions. The author's masterful skill takes us on an exciting adventure. In search of answers, we turn through chapter after chapter, book after book. Together with Zuckerman, we will find clues only on the pages of Roth’s last story about the writer and his ghosts, when in an elderly, sick lady we recognize the incomprehensible and seductive Amy Bellet...

The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth’s novels.

The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth’s novels.

The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth’s novels.

The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth’s novels.

The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth’s novels.

The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth’s novels.

The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth’s novels.

—VILLAGE VOICE

Another evidence that in literature Roth can control everything. As a storyteller, he is inimitable: both the plot itself and the way Roth develops it amazes.

—WASHINGTON POST