Deception

Deception

â€œWith the lover everyday life recedes,â€ Roth writes â€• 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 â€• mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialogue â€• sharp, rich, playful, inquiring, â€œmoving,â€ as Hermione Lee writes, â€œon a scale of pain from furious bafflement to stoic gaietyâ€ â€• is nearly all there is to this audiobook, and all there needs to be. â€œA fiendishly clever piece of work . . . an amazing feat. . . . Heâ€™s invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist.â€ â€• William Pritchard, Hudson Review
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780671703745
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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