Operation Shylock: A Confession - Hardcover

Roth, Philip

 
9780671703769: Operation Shylock: A Confession

Synopsis

A man whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe is at the center of this meditation on identity

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Review

" 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

Book Description

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

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