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Deception

Deception

by PhilipRoth (Author)

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    Paperback 1991

    $11.67

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    Hardcover 1990

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Synopsis

'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book Review He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling clarity. Deception is fiendishly clever, as it dances with the conventions of the novel, and redefines the boundaries between fiction and reality.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 18 Jul 1991
ISBN 10: 0099801906
ISBN 13: 9780099801900
Book Overview: 'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book Review

Media Reviews
This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction * New York Times Book Review *
Deception is itself deceptive, as elegant and ingenious as anything in The Ghost Writer or The Prague Orgy * New Republic *
Lively, shiny, glazed with wit -- James Wood * Guardian *
An amazing feast... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist * Hudson Review *
A fiendishly clever piece of work...an amazing feat... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist * Hudson Review *
Author Bio
Philip Roth (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for `the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004'. Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award `for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship' and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose `scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature'. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize.