Deception

Philip Roth

ISBN 10: 0099801906 / ISBN 13: 9780099801900

Editore: Vintage, 1991

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Paperback in good condition, some minor creasing to cover. From Publishers Weekly Conversations, most of them between an American writer living in London and his English mistress, make up what PW called "a clever comedy of manners that segues as is the author's wont into a disquisition on the distinction between literature and life." From Library Journal Philip, a successful, middle-aged, and highly opinionated Jewish-American novelist, moves to a small flat in London to work on his new book. He begins seeing a married Englishwoman in his spare time, and soon he has filled a notebook with their pre and post-coital conversations. When he publishes this document as a novel, his indignant mistress accuses him of deceiving both her and his public. The book ends with Philip's impassioned defense of self-referential fiction. The issue, however, is not self-referential fiction in general but simply Roth's own peculiar version of it, which consists mostly of unabashed editorializing through the mouthpiece of Philip. A textbook example of the novel as soapbox, Deception will appeal only to Roth's most steadfast supporters.

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• Titolo: Deception
• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099801906
• ISBN 13: 9780099801900
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Used: Acceptable
• Peso: 3 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Fiction

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Riassunto

Questo romanzo veloce, elegante e inquietante. Si colloca all'estremo della narrativa contemporanea' New York Times Book Review Lui è uno scrittore americano di mezza età di nome Philip; lei è un'inglese eloquente e istruita, intrappolata in un matrimonio senza amore e umiliante. Nello studio londinese di Philip, questo gioco di voci - acute, tenere e curiose - rivela le loro vite passate con sorprendente chiarezza. L'inganno è diabolicamente intelligente, poiché danza con le convenzioni del romanzo e ridefinisce i confini tra finzione e realtà.

Informazioni sull?autore

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.

In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.