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Exit Ghost

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Synopsis

Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.

Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. The second is with a figure from Zuckerman's youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman's first literary hero, E I Lonoff.

The third is with Lonoff's would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff's 'great secret'. Suddenly involved, as he never wanted to be involved again, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities...

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