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HERMIONE LEE: As the book's title, taken from a stage direction in "Macbeth," tells us, this is a book of haunting. The novelist Nathan Zuckerman haunts his old city like a revenant, and is haunted by ghosts of the past--the ghostly warning voice of his onetime inspiration, the writer E. I. Lonoff; the haunting figure of Amy Bellette, the consort of Lonoff's last years, once strange and beautiful and young, now old and sick and poor. Zuckerman is haunted by the erotic counterlife with thirty-year-old Jamie Logan, never to be fulfilled, except on the page. And the book itself is haunted by "The Ghost Writer." What is the appeal, the force, the inspiration of ghosts and ...