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Deception
  • Published: 6 September 1991
  • ISBN: 9780099801900
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

Deception

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Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book Review

He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling clarity. Deception is fiendishly clever, as it dances with the conventions of the novel, and redefines the boundaries between fiction and reality.
  • Published: 6 September 1991
  • ISBN: 9780099801900
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again. Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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Praise for Deception

Deception is itself deceptive, as elegant and ingenious as anything in The Ghost Writer or The Prague Orgy

New Republic

A fiendishly clever piece of work...an amazing feat... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist

Hudson Review

Lively, shiny, glazed with wit

James Wood, Guardian

This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction

New York Times Book Review

An amazing feast... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist

Hudson Review