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Deception

By Philip Roth

Deception Contemporary literature

Deception

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"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.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
210
Release Date:
1997-04-01
Publication Date:
1997-04-01
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679752943
ISBN13:
9780679752943
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Weight:
222 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
11 cm

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