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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 half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversations--mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love.
"A fiendishly clever piece of work...an amazing feat.... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist."-- "Hudson Review"
"A fiendishly clever piece of work...an amazing feat.... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist."-- "Hudson Review"
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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
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679752943
- ISBN 13 9780679752943
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A dazzling novel about a man and woman married to other peopleand the riveting conversations that take place before and after they make lovefrom the acclaimed Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 writesand 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 conversationmainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialoguesharp, 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. Presents an intimate, incisive portrait of a middle-aged American living in London and his mistress, a married Englishwoman, through a series of private, adulterous dialogues. Reprint. NYT. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679752943
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