Philiip Roth's The Ghost Writer - Whiney Writing at Its Wittiest

Philip Roth is one of America's finest and highly bestowed authors.  NY Magazine named him the greatest Amer. writer ('13).   He's received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the Man Booker and Named Commander of the Legion d'honer.  Pres. Obama honored Roth in 2011 with the Nat'l Humanities Medal.  Roth (b 1933-2018) is a literary giant with a legacy that will likely label him a writer whose memes portrayed Jewish life in American, Jewish self-loathing, Anti-semitism, Jewish assimilation, self-congratulations to his literary & sexual prowess and perhaps, masturbation.  I laud Roth as an extraordinary writer with a fierce, clarion voice.  His style is defiant, irreverent, unapologetic and astutely aware of the pulse of social & cultural conundrums.  "The Ghost Writer" was published in 1979.  It is his 1st work in which he introduces the young Jewish writer Nathan Zuckerman (a.k.a. a nom de plume for himself).  The novel spans two days in the rural home of a renown author E. I Lonoff for whom Nathan worships and is flattered beyond measure to receive his praise & attention.  There are other intriguing storylines that include a rift with his family who are appalled he intends to publish a short story that casts aspersions on Jews.  Lonoff is married to an uppercrust gentile, Hope.  Hope is fed up with their marriage and Lonoff's houseguest, a young co-ed Amy with whom his is having an affair.  Nathan is besotted with Amy & her nebulous, delusional claim to be Anne Frank.  This early work of Roth's prolific career portends a skillful writer with a brilliant gift for self-revelation and societal accusations.  Roth will remain one of the most talented & significant writers of the 20th C.  His clever & prolific works created in the 21st C do not mitigate his luminescence but they tend to focus heavily on himself; his despair with aging and his disconnect from today's technically advanced younger & vital youth.   I recommend reading Roth's novels.  "The Ghost Writer" is a paradigm of the phalanx of his many notable novels.