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A Double Life

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An edition of Ghosting (2004)

Ghosting

A Double Life

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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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Anchor Canada
Language
English
Pages
288

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Ghosting
2009, Canongate Books
E-book in English
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Ghosting: A Double Life
July 11, 2006, Anchor Canada
in English
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Ghosting: A Double Life
July 11, 2006, Anchor
Paperback in English
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Ghosting: A Double Life
April 12, 2005, Doubleday Canada
in English
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Ghosting
June 30, 2005, Canongate Books
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Ghosting: A Double Life
April 12, 2005, Doubleday
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Ghosting
November 4, 2004, Canongate Books Ltd
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Ghosting: a memoir
2004, Canoncate Books
in English
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"So strange and exotic is he that he could be a rare tropical bird that you might never come face to face with, even in a lifetime spent in the rain forest."

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OL7441682M
Internet Archive
ghostingdoubleli0000erda
ISBN 10
0385661134
ISBN 13
9780385661133
OCLC/WorldCat
63705528
Goodreads
4285609

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