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false <![CDATA[Deception]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168046361m/29745.jpg 29745 13 "With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes—and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in <b>Deception</b> the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of <b>Deception</b> 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 book's 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 book, and all there needs to be. 1793048 1990 Deception total:271|5:36|4:87|3:102|2:38|1:8| 271 918 381 28 2 1 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 08:05:56 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 19:24:39 -0700 2009
How much is fact and how much is fiction? And all that.

What I liked:
The dialogues between the two central lovers.
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it's all dialo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 19 09:28:43 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 06:25:55 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 09:28:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 11 16:35:38 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 20 10:47:22 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 11 16:35:38 -0700 2009 post-read: Well I had to knock it down a star on this read (count: maybe four?) because I forgot just how very Jewish every single Philip Roth book is, but I still really adore this one. All told in unattributed dialogue, with snappy cool conversations and great, sexy characters. Plus it was my firs...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 02 10:44:22 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 10:45:07 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 20:21:08 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 20:30:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Aug 22 17:06:43 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 17:11:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 15:37:42 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 06:01:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 09:56:12 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 12:25:17 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 14:09:22 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 08:28:28 -0700 2009
Roth is a masterful writer, and I picked this up after I read "Indignation." The latter was a masterful story artfully told. This is not.

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Also, I got my copy from the library and there were a few pages in the mid...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 03 10:56:36 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 27 07:12:11 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 03 10:56:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 04 15:34:36 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 15:38:19 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 10:37:13 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 10:38:50 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Aug 15 03:48:28 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 04:35:39 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=29745