Book #56724

The Ghost Writer

Philip Roth

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: Second Printing
Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.

Price: $50.00

A Second Printing, mostly Fine in a scuffed Near Fine dust-jacket.

In the near future, the United States is a divided country, with the east ruled by a oppressive government and the west controlled by a powerful corporation. In the west, a writer named Adam Lang is working on a book about the resistance movement in the east. When the government finds out about the book, they order Lang to stop writing it. Lang's friend, the ghostwriter John Killian, helps him to continue writing the book in secret.; 8vo; 179 pages; $6.00.