Deception, Philip Roth
Deception, Philip Roth
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Deception

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Susan Ericksen, David Colacci

Unabridged: 4 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2024


Synopsis

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 acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–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. 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.

About Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Book Award, and many more. He also won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union and in the same year received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. 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.”

About Susan Ericksen

Susan Ericksen is an actor and voice-over artist. She has been awarded numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. As an actor and director, she has worked in theaters throughout the country.

About David Colacci

David Colacci is an actor and director who has directed and performed in prominent theaters nationwide. His credits include roles from Shakespeare to Albee, as well as extensive work on new plays. As a narrator, he has won numerous Earphones Awards, earned Audie Award nominations, and been included in Best Audio of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. He was a resident actor and director with the Cleveland Play House for eight years and has been artistic director of the Hope Summer Rep Theater since 1992.


Reviews

Goodreads review by piperitapitta on April 05, 2021

Deception «- È stata un’esperienza strana leggerlo, molto strana. Perché non avevo dubbi su quali parti fossero state scritte solo per me. Magari mi sbagliavo, eppure non avevo dubbi. E non ne avevo neanche su quali pezzi invece non mi riguardassero, forse li riconoscevo meglio ancora degli altri. - S......more

Goodreads review by Nood-Lesse on September 03, 2020

Sì, questa è la vita ed è un peccato distorcerla con della cattiva letteratura Nel commento al lamento di Portnoy scrissi che Roth era il Franco Baresi della letteratura (sempre in lizza e mai premiato con il pallone d'oro). Leggereste gli stati d’animo e le impressioni di Kaiser Franz in merito alle......more

Goodreads review by Shane on October 15, 2020

A Deception on the Reader? As the title suggests, I think Roth is pulling a deception not only on his wife and his lovers, but also on his readers in this book which reads like a radio play for want of narration, action, or scene depiction. At first the novel seems like a peep-show into an adulterous......more

Goodreads review by Read By RodKelly on July 18, 2020

Philip Roth is an icon of American letters for a reason. There is no denying the incredible nuance and power of his writing, which is a cut above the rest for its uncanny ability to explicate the author's obsessive mind while bending rules, blurring lines, and transcending the limits of fiction, all......more

Goodreads review by Simona on May 30, 2017

Torno a leggere Roth dal quale è veramente difficile riuscire a staccarmi. “Inganno” è un romanzo infarcito di dialoghi, un romanzo in cui sembra che non esista una vera e propria trama. Si ha quasi paura a proseguire nella lettura. Sembra di entrare in punta di piedi in questa storia dove il lettore......more


Quotes

“This swift, elegant, disturbing novel…stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction.” New York Times Book Review