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Deception / "With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes - and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception 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 30s, 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 audiobook, and all there needs to be.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Fiction
Classification	F-ROT-D
Publisher	New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore., Touchstone,Simon & Shuster Inc., 1990
Subject	FictionAdultery--Fiction.Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Description	208
ISBN	9780671732967
URL	https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29745.Deceptionhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5862304?q=deception%2Fphilip+roth&c=book&sort=holdings+desc&_=1576553155600&versionId=6806207https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5862304?q=deception%2Fphilip+roth&c=book&sort=holdings+desc&_=1576553324544&versionId=250856087