Zuckerman's Books: Exit the Ghost (From Around the World), Paperback Book, By: Roth, Philip

After eleven years of voluntary imprisonment in the countryside of Massachusetts, Zuckerman sets foot in New York again, for a benign intervention but which sends him back to his physical decline. In the city overwhelmed by the unexpected re-election of George W. Bush, three meetings will upset his plans: Amy Billeted, aged and almost dying, she who, in the splendour of her youth, was the muse of EI Lon off, his mentor; Richard Kliman, an unbearable young upstart who harasses him because he wants to reveal Logoff's secrets; and then, above all, a young couple of writers with whom he plans to exchange houses. And here is Zuckerman, who believed himself immune, in the throes of a last thunderbolt. For Jamie, the very charming young woman of the couple. Will he move on to act? Or use this last love to write again - translate the fantasies he inspires in her into fiction?