Starring Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
from the novel by Philip Roth
with Mark Linn Baker, Paulette Smit
'You're not so nice and polite in your fiction. You're a different person.'
Philip Roth's masterly novel about writers and writing, conflicts of family, race and art, has been specially dramatised for Arena. Nathan Zuckerman learns some unexpected lessons about himself and his aspirations to become a great writer, when he spends a night in the troubled household of his hero, the distinguished E.I. Lonoff. And who is the young woman with the shadowed eyes - and the mysterious past?
The Ghost Writer
Arena · Season 1 · Episode 205
Starring Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
from the novel by Philip Roth
with Mark Linn Baker, Paulette Smit
'You're not so nice and polite in your fiction. You're a different person.'
Philip Roth's masterly novel about writers and writing, conflicts of family, race and art, has been specially dramatised for Arena. Nathan Zuckerman learns some unexpected lessons about himself and his aspirations to become a great writer, when he spends a night in the troubled household of his hero, the distinguished E.I. Lonoff. And who is the young woman with the shadowed eyes - and the mysterious past?
from the novel by Philip Roth
with Mark Linn Baker, Paulette Smit
'You're not so nice and polite in your fiction. You're a different person.'
Philip Roth's masterly novel about writers and writing, conflicts of family, race and art, has been specially dramatised for Arena. Nathan Zuckerman learns some unexpected lessons about himself and his aspirations to become a great writer, when he spends a night in the troubled household of his hero, the distinguished E.I. Lonoff. And who is the young woman with the shadowed eyes - and the mysterious past?
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1
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205
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12/Nov/1983
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