EXIT GHOST. by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, 304 pages, $26 If you were hoping the final installment in the life of Philip Roth’s alter id, Nathan Zuckerman, would include transformative ins… ...

The Zuckerman oeuvre weighs in at 2,215 clothbound pages, not counting Nathan's letter to Roth in the author's autobiography ("The Facts"). The hubris! The chutzpah!

Philip Roth, that man you venerate, wants to slap your face for asking that question. Excuse me—Nathan Zuckerman, the hero of Exit Ghost, the ninth and, we're told, last of Roth's "Zuckerman ...

Philip Roth says he’s done with Nathan Zuckerman. But is Nathan done with Philip Roth?“Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman,” the headline from Time magazine reads. Roth, the story declares, “has ...

In Exit Ghost, Roth's favorite alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, has prostate problems. He's impotent, incontinent and licentious Rothian ingredients for what Roth promises to be the last of his nine ...

Roth first wrote about a Nathan Zuckerman in "My Life as a Man" (1974). Back then he was a novelist invented by another invented novelist, David Tarnapol. Then he got real.

Almost 30 years ago by our calendar—nearly 50 by Nathan Zuckerman's—Philip Roth's alter ego journeyed as a young literary pilgrim up to the Berkshire ...

Click here to read more from Slate’s Fall Fiction Week.. What’s with Nathan Zuckerman’s crush on George Plimpton?Readers of Exit Ghost will recognize that I’m referring to the extended ...

No. 16: The Last Zuckerman Novel Philip Roth's famous protagonist, Nathan Zuckerman, makes his ninth appearance in Roth's new novel, Exit Ghost . By Scott Raab Published: Sep 11, 2007 ...

Indeed, it was only with the 1979 publication of “The Ghost Writer,” the first of his novels to feature Nathan Zuckerman, that Roth uncovered what has become the center of his work.

Author Philip Roth says his latest novel, Exit Ghost, is also his last one about Nathan Zuckerman. The character was 23 when Roth began writing about him. Now 71, the character is grappling with ...

Nobody is happy. We would prefer to be someone else – someone richer, someone thinner, someone happier.For young Nathan Zuckerman, that someone else was “the Swede.” When Nathan was a kid ...