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Ghosting: A Double Life
Jennie Erdal
#UA2312
Hardcover, 270 pages; 2005
$13.95
In the early 1980s, Jennie Erdal signed on as an editor/translator of Russian books with a London publishing house. There, she met the exotic, charming, and flamboyant publisher she nicknamed "Tiger," and began a most peculiar business relationship. Tiger, whose "sentences were a riot of hangings and danglings," was more a man of enthusiasm than of letters--and so it was that Erdal came to spend the next two decades ghostwriting his correspondence, newspaper columns, and books. In examining the complexities and absurdities of writing as someone else,Ghosting is both insightful and funny. (Erdal's reluctant attempts to work Tiger's grand, though oddly worded, ideas for sex scenes into his novels are wonderful!) With keen insight and a delightful ability to "see things through a comic prism," Erdal delivers an enlightening, entertaining, and intimate memoir of a ghostwriter.
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