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Ghosting: A Double Life
by Erdal, Jennie
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385514263
- ISBN 13
- 9780385514262
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 2005-04-12. Softcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Bound Galley, softcover. Text unmarked. xv, 270pp.
Synopsis
Ghosting is a remarkable account of one woman's life - or, to be more accurate, lives. For fifteen years, Jennie Erdal had a double existence: officially she worked as a personal editor for one particular man - Tiger - but in reality she was his ghost-writer and in some mysterious sense his alter ego. During this time she wrote a great deal that appeared under his name - from personal letters and business correspondence to newspaper columns, novels and full length books. Ghosting moves from a vivid evocation of an austere upbringing in Fife to superbly rendered portraits of the people with whom Jennie Erdal worked at a London-based publishing house, chief among them Tiger, the larger-than-life character with whom the author had a unique and symbiotic relationship; professionally hidden, yet somehow truthful and intimate. This moving and beautifully written memoir is laced throughout with rich, quiet comedy and profound insights into what it means to be human and to live in language. Ghosting is a meditation on words, identity and creativity, but above all it is a portrait of a uniquely intimate relationship between a man and a woman.
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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JCOSerdGD
- Title
- Ghosting: A Double Life
- Author
- Erdal, Jennie
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385514263
- ISBN 13
- 9780385514262
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005-04-12
- Size
- 8x5x1
- X weight
- 14 oz
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Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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