Lisa read and liked Nancy's review of Exit Ghost:

"I never read Philip Roth. I thought he was a "man's" writer and, from the discussions I heard, that he wrote mostly about the fact that young men want to have sex all the time. Which is really not nearly as interesting as young men think ...more I never read Philip Roth. I thought he was a "man's" writer and, from the discussions I heard, that he wrote mostly about the fact that young men want to have sex all the time. Which is really not nearly as interesting as young men think it is.

But I picked up this book recently and read it one day, could not put it down. It is the most recent, maybe last book about Roth's protagonist Nathan Zuckerman who the public probably thinks is Roth's alter-ego.

I loved this book. Maybe it was a man's book. It certainly deals with some issues unique to men -- prostrate cancer, for example. But it also is about aging, about our bodies betraying us over time, about changes, about decisions made without much thoughts which can turn out to have enormous significance in people's lives.

Loved the book. Now I'm going to go back and get all the books about this character, start from the beginning.(less) "