Deception - Couverture rigide

Roth, Philip

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224030000 ISBN 13 : 9780224030007

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

A novel by the author of "Portnoy's Complaint". It deals with the adulterous intimacy of a middle-aged American author living in London, and his married English mistress. They meet in a room with no bed. They have sex. They tell lies. They play games. Then he exposes it all in a book.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for ‘the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004’.

Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award ‘for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship’ and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose ‘scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature’. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize.

Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.

Revue de presse

"This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction" (New York Times Book Review)

"Deception is itself deceptive, as elegant and ingenious as anything in The Ghost Writer or The Prague Orgy" (New Republic)

"Lively, shiny, glazed with wit" (James Wood Guardian)

"An amazing feast... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist" (Hudson Review)

"A fiendishly clever piece of work...an amazing feat... He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist" (Hudson Review)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224030000
• ISBN 13: 9780224030007
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible