Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
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Operation Shylock
A Confession

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 16 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2024

Synopsis

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites AnonymousIn this book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator.With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a wild cast of characters, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.

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 Richard Poe

Richard Poe, a professional actor for more than thirty years, has appeared in numerous Broadway shows, including 1776 and M. Butterfly. On television he has had recurring roles on Star Trek and Frasier. His films include Born on the Fourth of July and Presumed Innocent. Poe is a well-known and prolific audiobook performer and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on November 20, 2023

Old review below - new review after rereading is here [URL not allowed] I've said so many rude things about Philip Roth here, you know, what a sexist fucker he is, just the standard stuff, nothing surprising. He had been pretty expert in getting my goat. I waded through Americal......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 25, 2018

Highly inventive, Operation Shylock is a long questioning of identity and legitimacy. It has a rather complex web of characters and you never are quite sure who is real and who isn't. I enjoyed reading it, but it felt a bit unfinished (although the Epilogue attempts to explain why) and so I will pro......more

Goodreads review by William2 on July 09, 2017

Superb. Reminds me of Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift in the way it illuminates a specific cultural milieu. In this case, Jerusalem in 1988. I seek to place this worthy book in like company only. As to its prose style, tone, diction etc. it's inimitable. Activities taking place in Israel that year inc......more

Goodreads review by Gauss74 on August 29, 2019

Avendo già letto molto di Philip Roth, ho la sensazione che questo "Operazione Shylock" sia il libro della sua maturità, quello dove la sua parabola si compie. Lo stile che lo ha reso celebre è ormai uscito, sono ancora presenti tutte le tematiche dei primi romanzi (l'ossessione per il possesso, per......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on May 13, 2022

En parte por el Shylock de Shakespeare en su "Mercader de Venecia", y en parte porque había dejado la novela a una amiga y no le había gustado, decidí volver a leer la que en mi recuerdo estaba como una de las obras que más había disfrutado de Philip Roth, y eso ya es decir que la había disfrutado m......more

Quotes

"One of Roth’s grand inventions…[He is] a comic genius.” The New York Review of Books

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