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Synopsis
Presents an intimate, incisive portrait of a married, middle-aged American living in London and his mistress, a married Englishwoman, through a private, adulterous dialogue
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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"
"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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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. 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. Seller Inventory # 00094078924
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Deception
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Simon & Schuster, 1990
ISBN 10: 0671703749
ISBN 13: 9780671703745
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Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP62116247
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Deception
Published by
Simon & Schuster, 1990
ISBN 10: 0671703749
ISBN 13: 9780671703745
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First Edition
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Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP62116247