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Operation Shylock : A Confession (PEN/Faulkner Award) by Philip Roth (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679750290
ISBN-139780679750291
eBay Product ID (ePID)535240
Product Key Features
Book TitleOperation Shylock : a Confession (Pen/Faulkner Award)
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicLiterary, Political, Jewish
GenreFiction
AuthorPhilip Roth
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-044045
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius...a living master." -Harold Bloom,The New York Review of Books "The uncontested master of comic irony." -Timemagazine "A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." -Alfred Kazin "A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -Ted Solotaroff,The Nation, "One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius...a living master." -Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books "The uncontested master of comic irony." -Time magazine "A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." -Alfred Kazin "A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -Ted Solotaroff, The Nation, A Time Magazine Best American Novel "One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius ... a living master." --Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books "The uncontested master of comic irony." -- Time magazine "A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." --Alfred Kazin "A brilliant novel of ideas ... Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." --Ted Solotaroff, The Nation, "One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius...a living master." -Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books "The uncontested master of comic irony." - Time magazine "A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." -Alfred Kazin "A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -Ted Solotaroff, The Nation
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisWINNER 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., 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., Time Magazine Best American Novel (1993) In this fiendishly imaginative 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 cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.
LC Classification NumberPS3568.O855O6 1994
