EXIT GHOST By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin. 292 pp. $26 The prose is as assured and inviting as ever, but Philip Roth's latest -- and perhaps last -- novel about his alter ego, the writer Nathan Zuckerman, is in many ways a magnificent shambles, like old age itself. Exit Ghost mixes reflections o... -
Michael Dirda
EXIT GHOST By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin. 292 pp. $26 The prose is as assured and inviting as ever, but Philip Roth's latest -- and perhaps last -- novel about his alter ego, the writer Nathan Zuckerman, is in many ways a magnificent shambles, like old age itself. Exit Ghost mixes reflections o...-
By Michael Dirda