Deception (Vintage International) - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679752943 ISBN 13: 9780679752943

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

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Book by Roth Philip

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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

Reseña del editor:

"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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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679752943
• ISBN 13: 9780679752943
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208