{"product_id":"exit-ghost-9780618915477","title":"Exit Ghost","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed  Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York  the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain  Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices  no media  no terrorist threats  no women  no news  no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.  Walking the streets like a revenant  he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom  in a rash moment  he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9\/11 Manhattan for his country refuge  and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them  Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman  Jamie  whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy  the vibrant play of heart and body.  The second connection is with a figure from Zuckermans youth  Amy Bellette  companion and muse to Zuckermans first literary hero  E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness  guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation.  The third connection is with Lonoffs would-be biographer  a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoffs great secret. Suddenly involved  as he never wanted or intended to be involved again  with love  mourning  desire  and animosity  Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.  Haunted by Roths earlier work The Ghost Writer  Exit Ghost is an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writers insatiable commitment to fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960560246837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0618915478","price":20.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780618915477.jpg?v=1788291008","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/exit-ghost-9780618915477","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}