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Ghosting:A Double Life
by Erdal,Jennie
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New /As New
- ISBN 10
- 0385514263
- ISBN 13
- 9780385514262
- Seller
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Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
NY NY: Doubleday & Company. NEW. Not used. Tiny spot on free end paper. Fresh tight clean strong bright jacket boards text. No remainder or other markings. . As New. Hardcover. First American. 2005.
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
- mompopsbooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015871
- Title
- Ghosting:A Double Life
- Author
- Erdal,Jennie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American
- ISBN 10
- 0385514263
- ISBN 13
- 9780385514262
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8 Vo..
- Keywords
- GHOST WRITER EXPERIENCE
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