ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that focusing on the stimulating character of Amy Hungerford's physical difference offers a more productive analysis of Philip Roth's representation of Anne Frank not only in The Ghost Writer, but also in other novels in which she is referenced; My Life as a Man (1974). It argues that Roth's representations of Frank in The Ghost Writer and Exit Ghost rely heavily upon depictions of illness, physical and cognitive impairment, disfigurement, and amputation. The chapter participates in some senses of prosthesis as David Wills defines it. It aims to dislodge and supplement the dominant critical understanding of how Frank functions in Roth's work. In The Prague Orgy Nathan Zuckerman encounters Eva Kalinova, an actress of whom it is said, in yet another iteration of the seduction trope, "All of Prague has been in love with her since she was eighteen".
