EBOOK Ghosting
Opis
A Double Life
When Jennie Erdal was hired to edit a flamboyant London publishers Russian books in translation, she was happy to be able to commute from her home in Scotland. Soon, however, she was also secretly writing her bosss love letters, hundreds of newspaper columns that appeared in his name, and, though she had never before written fiction, his two well-reviewed novels. For more than fifteen years she would be the indispensable ghostwriter for the exasperating, obsessive, but nontheless charming Tiger.Erdal reveals this oddly intimate relationship with a novelists flair for character and observation--and wry insight into her own collusion. Suspenseful, controversial, and beautifully written, Ghosting is the most penetrating portrait yet of a mysterious profession.From the Trade Paperback edition.
When Jennie Erdal was hired to edit a flamboyant London publishers Russian books in translation, she was happy to be able to commute from her home in Scotland. Soon, however, she was also secretly writing her bosss love letters, hundreds of newspaper columns that appeared in his name, and, though she had never before written fiction, his two well-reviewed novels. For more than fifteen years she would be the indispensable ghostwriter for the exasperating, obsessive, but nontheless charming Tiger.Erdal reveals this oddly intimate relationship with a novelists flair for character and observation--and wry insight into her own collusion. Suspenseful, controversial, and beautifully written, Ghosting is the most penetrating portrait yet of a mysterious profession.From the Trade Paperback edition.