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Arts & Humanities > American Authors Book reviews: The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth

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The experience of reading Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer is not unlike the sensation one experiences in a room with mirrors on opposite walls - when you look into one mirror at just the right angle you see an endless series of cascading reflections in the other. The Ghost Writer presents layer after layer of texts, of familial relationships, of questions of identity, and, of questions of the artist's responsibility to truth, family, and to art itself. One layer falls away revealing another layer - which may or may not be true - before this layer is also stripped away to reveal a new truth,...

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