| Deception Contributor(s): Roth, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679752943 ISBN-13: 9780679752943 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96046866 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.32" W x 8.04" (0.46 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |