Harper Lake

Harper Lake

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Exit Ghost (Hollis)

Exit Ghost by Phillip Roth
Old-man fantasies - return to New York after eleven years in rural New England - impotence - diapers - diminished brain - He/She dialog - E.I. Lonoff character based on Henry Roth? Bernard Malamud? - Bush reelection compared to Macbeth - liberal's dismay at election result - George Plimpton memorialized - Biographer's rights/responsibilities - Title from stage direction--Exit Ghost--from three Shakespeare plays.

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