Philip Roth: Exit Ghost [2008] paperback LBIOG I was on the edge

I was on the edge of my seat for every page

' J M Hewitt

It's a book about the past

He got rich and famous and immersed himself in booze

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment

Philip Roth: Exit Ghost [2008] paperback LBIOG I was on the edgeReturning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman incontinent and impotent comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he quickly makes several connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. In a rash moment, he offers to swap homes with a young couple. And from the moment he meets them, Zuckerman wants to exchange his solitude for the erotic allure of the young woman Jamie, who