TY - JOUR
AU - Epstein, David A.
AB - 158 ♦ Book Reviews in the impertinently brazen Kliman? The ghost of the young tantalizing Amy Bellette, now ill and aged, rapidly on her way to becoming a very real ghost herself? The ghost of Manhattan, whose streets have been overtaken by a gen - eration of unreflective cell phone enthusiasts and technophiles? Is Roth’s ghost the phantom of America, no longer the place of rhapsodic possibility, but now given way to terrorism, vulgar politics, and gimmickry? Or perhaps it’s the ghost of the twentieth century, leaving unrepentant memory in its wake? Or is it Nathan Zuckerman, who, at the close of the novel, slips surreptitiously away, after chastising himself in the words of his fictionalized “She,” who ac- cuses him of having “ lost all sense of proportion and entered into a desperate story of unreasonable wishes” (p. 291)? Finally, the “ghost” is, of course, as it has been ever since Everyman with Roth, the specter of death. It is the ghost of death that Zuckerman hopes to exorcise. And he will attempt to keep death at bay by writing, by creating fic- tions that reawaken possibility. Zuckerman, back in the safety of his mountain retreat at the 
TI - Shadow Traffic (review)
JF - Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
DA - 2010-04-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/purdue-university-press/shadow-traffic-review-DE4pH6quku
SP - 158
EP - 160
VL - 27
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -