{"product_id":"operation-shylock-isbn-9780679750291","title":"Operation Shylock","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral—\u003c\/i\u003ea fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a wild cast of characters, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine Best American Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius ... a living master.\" \u003cb\u003e—Harold   Bloom, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The uncontested master of comic irony.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like   sweat at every pore, and madly comic.\" \u003cb\u003e—Alfred Kazin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A brilliant novel of ideas ... Roth   has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before.\" \u003cb\u003e—Ted Solotaroff, \u003ci\u003eThe   Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePHILIP 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":46299752792293,"sku":"NP9780679750291","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679750291.jpg?v=1767734238","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/operation-shylock-isbn-9780679750291","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}