Operation Shylock : a confession / Philip Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Philip, 1933-2018

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roth, Philip, 1933-2018--Fiction.

Roth, Philip.

False personation--Fiction.

False personation.

Israel--Fiction.

Israel.

Autobiographical fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Scalpone, Frank (donor) (RBC copy)

Roth, Philip (autograph) (RBC storage copies)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

398 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Summary:

What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In his extraordinary new book, his most ingenious and original work since Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a Moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the "real" Philip Roth. Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession. This master novelist has never been more demonically brilliant than in the re-creation of his frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East. Operation Shylock is Philip Roth's twentieth published book - and perhaps his very best.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0671703765

OCLC:

27034867