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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