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Deception : a Novel by PHILIP ROTH, by Philip Roth, Roth, Philip is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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 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 audiobook, and all there needs to be.“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 ReviewPublishers WeeklyConversations, most of them between an American writer living in London and his English mistress, make up wh

Who reads Deception : a Novel?

Author

PHILIP ROTH, by Philip Roth, Roth, Philip

Publisher

VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671703745

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.36 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14