Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets of New York after so many years away, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. Now Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.
Revisiting the characters from Roth's much-heralded The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an astounding leap into yet another phase in this great writer's oeuvre.
"This book is latter-day Roth at his intricately thoughtful best." --The New York Times Book Review
"Even in the face of death these characters are vivid and alive.... Roth is without a doubt one of the greatest living American writers, if not the greatest." --The San Francisco Chronicle
"Intricate, artful, and pressing." --The New Yorker