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

Deception

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'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
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About the author

Philip Roth

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.

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Praise for Deception

This is a heart-wrenching journey as dark secrets are exposed and we understand the decisions Sally was forced to make

Candis

A complex and gripping relationship drama

Devon Life

Unpredictable and full of unexpected twists, this is a compelling read

My Weekly Special

This book brilliantly builds intrigue as Alice uncovers her mum's life of deception, lies and love

Woman & Home

Full of suspense and intriguing characters

My Weekly

A twisting, turning and utterly addictive tale of mystery, hardship and self-survival

Lancashire Evening Post

Written with Pearse's typically engaging and effortless style of storytelling, Deception is an intriguing book of highs, lows, struggles and perseverance

Culturefly

A gritty, gripping drama . . . A raw, truthful and moving account, building intrigue as Alice gradually uncovers her mother's life of deception, lies - and love

Woman's Weekly

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