6/10/2023 0 Comments Exit Ghost by Philip Roth![]() ![]() Zuckerman, who narrates this novel, does indeed reek of the grave. Zuckerman, who has only the slightest personal stake in the matter - he spent a single evening back in 1956 with Lonoff, his soon-to-be-ex-wife, and a worshipful student - tells the biographer, “I’m going to do everything I can to sabotage you,” upon which the frustrated biographer excoriates Zuckerman: “You’re dying, old man, you’ll soon be dead! You smell of decay! You smell like death!” This is a not-unreasonable charge, given that the biography’s big revelation is going to be a sexual relationship the teenaged Lonoff supposedly had with his half-sister that is only marginally supported by the evidence. ![]() Lonoff that “the dirt-seeking snooping calling itself research is just about the lowest of literary rackets.” In Exit Ghost, Philip Roth’s ninth “Zuckerman” novel, Nathan Zuckerman tells a would-be biographer of the great, though purely fictional, American short-story writer E.I. ![]()
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