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[Dictating to The Ghost] Turned me on, indeed. Lets see, I was 23, som — The Ghost Writer

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"[Dictating to The Ghost] Turned me on, indeed. Lets see, I was 23, something like that, a couple of years out of Cambridge. And I remember it was a Sunday afternoon, it was raining. I was still in bed. And someone starts knocking at the door. And, you know, Id been out the night before and had a few drinks and what have you. So, I get the pillow and I put it over my head, and it starts up again. Knock, knock, knock, knock! And I get up, Im swearing, I go to the door and theres this girl. Shes soaking wet, but she just launches into this speech about the local elections. And thats it. Im in love."
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The Ghost Writer is a 1979 novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the first of Roth's novels narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, one of the author's putative fictional alter egos, and constitutes the first book in his Zuckerman Bound trilogy. The novel touches on themes common to many Roth works, including identity, the responsibilities of authors to their subjects, and the condition of Jews in

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