A dazzling novel about a man and woman married to other people-and the riveting conversations that take place before and after they make love, from the award-winning author of “American Pastoral.”
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 book's action consists of conversation, mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love.
