{"product_id":"deception-isbn-9780679752943","title":"Deception","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling novel about a man and woman married to other people—and the riveting conversations that take place before and after they make love—from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the lover everyday life recedes,\" Roth writes—and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in \u003ci\u003eDeception\u003c\/i\u003e the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of \u003ci\u003eDeception\u003c\/i\u003e 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. | \"This swift, elegant, disturbing novel ... stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction.\"   \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eDeception\u003c\/i\u003e is itself deceptive, as elegant and ingenious   as anything in \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Writer\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eThe Prague Orgy\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cb\u003e—Hermione Lee, \u003ci\u003eNew Repubic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A fiendishly clever piece of work ... an amazing feat.... He's invented the purest   speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist.\"\u003cb\u003e —William Pritchard,   \u003ci\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e | PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304187973861,"sku":"NP9780679752943","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679752943.jpg?v=1767724931","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/deception-isbn-9780679752943","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}