Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means impersonating the impersonator.An astoundingly accomplished piece of work * Guardian *
Nothing short of stunning * London Review of Books *
A very buoyant book, part truth, part fiction, combining sophistication with an equally beguiling vulgarity..it does leave one relishing it and wanting to read more * Spectator *
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099307914 |
| ISBN 10 | 009930791X |
| Title | Operation Shylock |
| Author | Philip Roth |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1995 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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