{"product_id":"deception-book-philip-roth-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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49589012005137,"sku":"GOR002316102","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49959762723089,"sku":"CIN0679752943G","price":5.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50151618904337,"sku":"CIN0679752943VG","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50357573746961,"sku":"CIN0679752943A","price":5.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679752943.jpg?v=1750816460","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/deception-book-philip-roth-9780679752943","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}