{"product_id":"deception-1st-edition-1st-printing-by-philip-roth","title":"Deception by Philip Roth","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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 thirties, she is already nervously half-resigned. The 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. “A fiendishly clever piece of work . . . an amazing feat. . . . He’s invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist.” — William Pritchard, Hudson Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105117896778,"sku":"5917q","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5917q_847b26ab-d27a-4451-b28d-9867806e5c2e.jpg?v=1765913357","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/deception-1st-edition-1st-printing-by-philip-roth","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}