Operation Shylock (Signed First Edition)

Philip Roth

ISBN 10: 0671703765 / ISBN 13: 9780671703769

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1993

About this Item

First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 155333

Bibliographic Details

Title: Operation Shylock (Signed First Edition)

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

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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

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