Operation Shylock A Confession (PEN/Faulkner Award) |
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Author:
| Roth, Philip |
Series title: | Vintage International Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-679-75029-1 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1994 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD * From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a 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 "One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius." --The New York Review of Books In this book (which may or may not be fiction),...
More Description WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD * From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a 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
"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius." --The New York Review of Books
In 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.
With 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.