The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth.
The young Nathan Zuckerman visits the secluded home of a writer he admires. Philip Roth turns the visit into an encounter with the competing claims of literary ambition, private conduct and the imagination.
Read it for the risks involved in turning other people's lives into material. The novel asks whether artistic freedom can ever be separated from responsibility toward those whom a story touches.
Cover shown and linked paperback: ISBN 9780679748984.
