num_pages: 179
description: When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of Amy's haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusions...
language: English
title: The Ghost Writer
titlecomplete: The Ghost Writer
characters: Felix Abravanel, Amy Bellette, Hope Lonoff, Nathan Zuckerman, E.I. Lonoff
genres: Jewish, 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 12289
places: Massachusetts
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman, Zuckerman Bound
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Random House