false 34324867 789457 29745 0099801906 9780099801900 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168046361m/29745.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168046361s/29745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29745.Deception 3.41 232 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 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.]]> 463 3.68 41861 4828 1990 4 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 17:57:21 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 17:58:03 -0700 2008 1