Synopsis
A novel by the author of "Portnoy's Complaint". It deals with the adulterous intimacy of a middle-aged American author living in London, and his married English mistress. They meet in a room with no bed. They have sex. They tell lies. They play games. Then he exposes it all in a book.
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" 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"
"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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'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction.' New York Times Book Review
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 208 pages. ?With the lover everyday life recedes,? Roth writes ? and exhibiting al l his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception t he tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no e. Seller Inventory # 5917q
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Hardback. 1st UK edition. "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 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 audiobook, and all there needs to be."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 very bad condition, creased entire pages, tanning dots. Seller Inventory # 30252020
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