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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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" One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius...a living master." -- Harold Bloom, "The New York Review of Books"
" The uncontested master of comic irony." -- "Time" magazine
" A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." -- Alfred Kazin
" A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -- Ted Solotaroff, "The Nation"
"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius...a living master." --Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books "The uncontested master of comic irony." --Time magazine "A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." --Alfred Kazin "A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." --Ted Solotaroff, The Nation
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" The uncontested master of comic irony." -- "Time" magazine
" A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." -- Alfred Kazin
" A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -- Ted Solotaroff, "The Nation"
"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius...a living master." --Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books "The uncontested master of comic irony." --Time magazine "A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." --Alfred Kazin "A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." --Ted Solotaroff, The Nation
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0224030094
- ISBN 13 9780224030090
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages400
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