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OPERATION SHYLOCK
A CONFESSION |
| By: |
Philip Roth |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
009930791X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099307914 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1994 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse of the Jews. Roth decides to stop him - even if that means impersonating his impersonator. 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1995 |
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Returnable |