- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
AbeBooks seller since February 24, 1998
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 250.00
Quantity: 1 available
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[a beautiful copy, both the book and the jacket in as-new condition]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For Kitaj -- / Philip / Aug. 2007." Roth's ninth and final "Nathan Zuckerman" novel, which brings the series full circle as his now-aged protagonist becomes involved with the biographer of the writer who had been the object of young Zuckerman's adulation in the first of the books, "The Ghost Writer." The inscribee of this copy was artist R.B. Kitaj, who became a close friend of Roth after the two met in London in 1985. Kitaj had positioned himself as an explicitly Jewish artist from the 1970s onward, and it's been noted that much of his thinking, particularly on the question of his Jewish identity, was influenced and inspired by Roth's writings. Kitaj executed a portrait of the writer, in charcoal on handmade paper, around the time they met, which was singled out for praise when it was included in the Tate Gallery's 1994 retrospective of the artist's work. Both that portrait and another, done in charcoal on canvas a few years later, were retained by the artist until his death in 2007. Roth, for his part, incorporated elements of Kitaj's personality into characters in several of his books, most explictly that of puppeteer Mickey Sabbath in his 1995 novel "Sabbath's Theater." The 2018 Arion Press edition of this novel was illustrated with thirteen of Kitaj's paintings and two of his drawings, a design choice made with the understanding and approval of Roth, although he died before the book went into production. Signed by Author.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Exit Ghost [*SIGNED*]
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/New York
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine dj
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by (dj design) Milton Glaser
- Edition
- First Edition.
ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
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