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Ghosting

  • Jennie Erdal,
  • Jennie Erdal ,
  • JENNIE ERDAL

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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.

Genres

  • Authorship
  • Biography
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Collaboration
  • Ghostwriters
  • Ghostwriting
  • Nonfiction
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Biographies
  • Editeurs
  • Negres (Redacteurs)
  • Coauteurs
  • Publishers and publishing, great britain
  • Relations with men
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Women ghostwriters
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Editions

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    CANONGATE BOOKS

    2004

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    Canongate Books

    June 30, 2005

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    Doubleday Canada

    April 12, 2005

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    Doubleday

    April 12, 2005

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Canongate Books Ltd

November 4, 2004

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    Anchor Canada

    July 11, 2006

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    Anchor

    July 11, 2006

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    Canoncate Books

    2004

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    Canongate Books

    2009