Conrad's review
Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International)
by Philip Roth
Conrad's review
Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International) by Philip Roth
Conrad's review
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Philip Roth being somewhat hit-or-miss, this one was a miss. It's about a writer named Philip Roth (paging Paul Auster...) who is being impersonated by another Philip Roth who has a political agenda the real Roth finds toxic: getting Jews to leave Israel en masse. The rhetoric and doubling is so dense that it's impossible to figure out, in the end, which side the book falls on, or why we should care in the first place. This is Roth lost in his own museum.
