Deception

By: Philip Roth

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Paperback | 1 April 1997

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208 Pages

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11 x 133 x 202

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A dazzling novel about a man and woman married to other people--and the riveting conversations that take place before and after they make love--from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral.

"This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction." --The New York Times Book Review

With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes--and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already nervously half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversation--mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialogue--sharp, rich, playful, inquiring, "moving," as Hermione Lee writes, "on a scale of pain from furious bafflement to stoic gaiety"--is nearly all there is to this book, and all there needs to be.

Industry Reviews

"This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction." --The New York Times Book Review "Deception is itself deceptive, as elegant and ingenious as anything in The Ghost Writer or The Prague Orgy." --Hermione Lee, New Repubic

"A fiendishly clever piece of work...an amazing feat.... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist." --William Pritchard, Hudson Review

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