Operation Shylock by Philip Roth - ISBN: 9780099307914
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Identity stolen, a doppelganger, and a dangerous mission in Israel.

Operation Shylock

A Confession

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    2 August 1994

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Summary

Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016.

“Subtle, funny and furious” - Observer

What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you?

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 re…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099307914
ISBN-10:009930791X
Author:Philip Roth
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:2 August 1994
Weight:284g
Dimensions:27mm x 131mm x 198mm
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Operation Shylock by Philip Roth - ISBN: 9780099307914
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Critics Review

Subtle, funny and furious

Subtle, funny and furious * Observer *
An astoundingly accomplished piece of work * Guardian *
Nothing short of stunning * London Review of Books *
A very buoyant book, part truth, part fiction, combining sophistication with an equally beguiling vulgarity…it does leave one relishing it and wanting to read more * Spectator *

About The Author

Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to time and again.

Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). His fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer Prize.

Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal.

Roth died on May 22, 2018, at the age of eighty-five, six years after retiring from writing.

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