内容简介
" 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. 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 book, and all there needs to be.
作者简介
In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary
awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock
(1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and
the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won
the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I
Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the
National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the
National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and
the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus
(1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy
that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The
Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as
Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001
he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years "for the
entire work of the recipient."