'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. This 1998 Vintage (UK) Paperback is in good condition. Writing in pen on page one. Cover worn. ISBN: 9780099801900 SKU: 1543475 This image is of the actual book.
