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Deception

By Philip Roth

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| Paperback | 9780679752943

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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 DeceptionContinue

"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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    In Philip Roth’s last novel, The Counterlife, Nathan Zuckerman’s brother died, was buried in New Jersey, and then started another life in Israel. Things more unorthodox still happen in Deception: time and reality are more finely splintered, knocked s ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  • The title is very well chosen. Life can be a deception for some people.

    This successful school teacher is growing old. But he still has a taste for young girls. He doesn't want to hang out with women of his own age. He thinks he doesn't deserve an old woman after all his hard work and his intellectual preparation. Besides, he thinks that he is not "that old" or "that ba ... (continue)

    This successful school teacher is growing old. But he still has a taste for young girls. He doesn't want to hang out with women of his own age. He thinks he doesn't deserve an old woman after all his hard work and his intellectual preparation. Besides, he thinks that he is not "that old" or "that bad-looking" and he believes that there is still a high possibility that young 18 to 20 year-old girls would find him attractive. How little does he know. Soon he will find out that in his student's eyes he is nothing more than this old drawling perv that is chasing them, and the deception will start to sink in.

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