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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0679750290
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This novel chronicles the "emotional and moral crises in the life of aJewish American writer named Philip Roth. Roth has just barely recovered from a Halcion-induced breakdown when he finds out that a man claiming to be Philip Roth is in Jerusalem promoting a bizarrely perverse movement to return Israeli Jews of European descent to Europe. The 'real' Roth has already planned atrip to Jerusalem and, rather than get help, chooses to confront this flamboyant impostor on his own. . . . In between fierce verbal skirmishes with his maddening doppelganger, Roth finds himself drawn into the seething, paranoiac subterfuge of Middle East politics, wrenching recollections of the Holocaust, and a nexus of spies, writers, and other professional liars." (Booklist)
| | | | From The Publisher
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.
| | | | Annotation
In this fiendishly imaginative, dizzyingly paced bestseller, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse, and it is up to Roth to stop him--even if that means impersonating his impersonator.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
intriguing, but wordy
-- A reviewer, December 21, 1999
'Operation Shylock' a Must for Roth Readers
-- Drew, an 18-year old high scholl student., April 10, 2001
Also Recommended: 'The Counterlife,' by Philip Roth
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A novel in which the author--and narrator--confronts his strange double. The look-alike espouses a mad plan to return Israeli Jews to Europe, drawing Roth into an international intrigue that involves the PLO and the Mossad. "Rarely have fact and fiction, personal confession and wild imaginings, led such a deeply, unnervingly comic dance"--Kirkus Reviews
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| | | | | | Keywords
Fiction, Intelligence service, Israel, Impostors and imposture, Antisemitism, False personation, Impostors and imposture, Fiction, Intelligence service, Antisemitism, Israel, General, Fiction - General, Literary
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