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WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF A LOOK-ALIKE STRANGER STOLE YOUR NAME, USURPED YOUR BIOGRAPHY, AND WENT ABOUT THE WORLD PRETENDING TO BE YOU? In Philip Roth's extraordinary new book, he confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a Moses in reverse and a monstrous Nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. Suspenseful, hilarious, demonic, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, 'Operation Shylock' is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
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Philip Roth received the 1960 National Book Award in Fiction for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus. In the last decade he has twice receieved the National Book Critics Circle Award - in 1987 for the novel The Counterlife and in 1992 for his memoir, Patrimony. His other books include: the trilogy and epilogue, Zuckerman Bound; the novels Letting Go, My Life as as Man, and The Professor of Desire; the political satire, Our Gang, and the autobiography, The Facts.
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