Exit Ghost

‘There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers’

TLS

‘Its subject embraces mortality, its sentences ring with vitality, and Roth reminds us why "the transforming exigencies of prose fiction" still matter even as the light begins to die’

Mail on Sunday

‘Taken together the Zuckerman novels read as both a noisy New Jersey Kaddish for 50 years of American history and an extraordinary contemporary "Song of Myself"’

New Statesman

‘At his best, Philip Roth constructs his novels from huge blocks of material, to produce an effect that is overpowering’

Observer

‘Here is a noble revelation of the cruel vulnerability of the body we live in without choice’

TLS

‘Consistently enthralling...full of tart humour and dancing intelligence’

Literary Review

‘Nobody who has followed him – one of the great writers of our time – thus far, should miss it’

Scotsman

‘A great book, a necessary book’

Sunday Herald

‘There is something magnificent about Philip Roth’s undimmed rage and life-lust...As a body of work, these novels may have changed the way that readers think about their own mortality’

Sunday Telegraph

‘This is a book about the importance of literature that lasts’

Daily Telegraph

‘America’s greatest living novelist. His books are the most anticipated literary events on both sides of the Atlantic’

Sunday Times

‘Rich with tragicomic possibilities’

Guardian

‘Roth is a writer’s writer, and one for intelligent readers too’

Sunday Herald

Consistently enthralling...full of tart humour and dancing intelligence

Literary Review

Taken together the Zuckermam novels read as both a noisy New Jersey Kaddish for 50 years of American History and an extraordinary contemporary "Song of Myself"

New Statesman

There is something magnificent about Philip Roth's undimmed rage and life-lust... As a body of work, these novels may have changed the way that readers think about their own mortality and may also have enlarged their sense of what it means to be a man; and one hopes that even E.I. Lonoff might consider that a fair tribute to the power of art

Sunday Telegraph

If its subject embraces mortality, its sentences ring with vitality, and Roth reminds us why "the transforming exigencies of prose fiction" still matter even as the light begins to die

Mail on Sunday

At his best, Philip Roth constructs his novels from huge blocks of material, to produce an effect that is overpowering

Observer

There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers

Times Literary Supplement

Here is a noble revelation of the curel vulnerability of the body we live in without choice

Times Literary Supplement

Nobody who has followed him - one of the great writers of our time - thus far, should miss it

Scotsman

This is a book about the importance of literature that lasts

Telegraph

A great book, a necessary book

Sunday Herald