Book Reviews: Book Review of Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth -- Blue Rectangle

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Exit Ghost

Philip Roth

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"I had come to reading Phillip Roth's writing late, you might say, in his career. I first read "The Plot Against America" that came out maybe three or four years ago, and then his most recent book, Everyman. I had enjoyed those two books and thought, "Wow, here's another chance to read from a writer whom I've enjoyed very much." It's about a character that I now know is a recurring character that Roth has been writing about for maybe 20 years or so, a character named Nathan Zuckerman. The character decides to move back to New York City to in a sense kind of deal with some issues that he had not dealt with for a while, I guess. He comes back because of health reasons -- he has prostate cancer -- and from that connects with a bunch of people kind of in a random sort of way. But there were just parts of the narrative that I found that were kind of quirky and fun, one example being in part of the plot he has a discussion with a character and because the narrator had been away out of New York and kind of out of civilization, you might say. For a long time he was unaware that George Plimpton, the writer, had died; and he kind of goes off on this tangent in some ways talking about George Plimpton and how important George Plimpton was as a writer. Having read Plimpton as a young kid, his sports books particularly, that was a fun thing for me to kind of enjoy that little piece of the story. I guess I would recommend the book for people who are maybe in an older age category. It worked very well as a book by itself in isolation; I don't think I missed anything by not knowing the other characters, who apparently are also recurring characters as well. I would actually give it a four out of five stars, and it's a book that will definitely kind of compel me to go back and look at even more Phillip Roth."