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Title	:	Operation Shylock: A Confession
Author	:	Philip Roth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	June 16th 1994 by Vintage (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. Jewish

Operation Shylock: A Confession Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In Operation Shylock, master novelist Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews back to Europe from Israel. The "fake" Philip Roth becomes a monstrous nemesis to the "real" Philip Roth, who must take a frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East. Suspenseful, hilarious, and impassioned, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, and a confession, pulsing with intelligence and intense narrative energy.

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Original Title:	Operation Shylock. A Confession
ISBN:	009930791X (ISBN13: 9780099307914)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1994), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1994)

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This book gets three stars because it's a Philip Roth book, but I wasn't too big a fan. When authors get too self-indulgent, it aggravates me if you want to know the truth. In this novel, Roth is the main character. This alone is enough to drive a loyal reader batty. Hasn't this been done enough? It's fiction, right? So write about someone else instead of your own crummy self. In this "confession" as the subtitle of the book calls it, Roth, the protagonist, has just gone through a

Perhaps Roth's best book, and definitely the best novel about modern Israel to date. Frustrating, dense and unapologetically complicated, Roth rewards patient readers with a multilayered satire about identity, embodiment and rhetoric. It's a sprawling epic, a tour de force in the best possible tradition. I've read it half a dozen times, got a quote from it tattooed on my arm, spent thousands of dissertation words getting to grips with it - and I still love it beyond reason.For those new to Roth,

When Kinky Friedman writes a detective novel in which the main character, the detective, is a humorist and musical performer named Kinky Friedman, we have a perfectly clear understanding that what the book recounts isnt truly autobiographical. Not so when Philip Roth writes a novel that purports to be a non-fiction memoir by Philip Roth.The recent PBS homage prompted me to turn again to this author of books I previously admired, such as American Pastoral (a 20th century reworking of the Book of

After reading American Pastoral (a work of art) I was excited to get my teeth into another Roth book. But where to start? I picked up a copy of Operation Shylock after carefully researching different discussions of Roth's greatest works. Maybe I just prefer Nathan Zuckerman's voice, but I found OS to be overwritten, completely unbelievable (and my satisfaction of finding out that the book is indeed a work of fiction on the last page was worth getting to it, but I never believed for a second that

The novelist Philip Roth goes to Israel during the Demjanjuk trial to interview the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld for the New York Times Book Review--an interview whose result you can find in the Times archives. So, nonfiction? Not so fast. For there's another Philip Roth pretending to be the novelist, and pushing "Diasporism," a movement to encourage Ashkenazi Jews to leave Israel for the European countries whence they or their ancestors came. Mix in the rise of the first Intifada and the

When I was twenty-one I left home, I left the north, and moved in with a Scottish woman, a friend of the mother of my then-girlfriend. Id got a job in Leamington Spa and needed a place to stay. The morning after moving in I woke up and still in my underwear went to the bathroom to brush my teeth etc. As I made to leave, however, the door handle came off in my hand. I was stuck. The house was empty. I was in there two hours, contemplating jumping, until I managed to convince [with difficulty] a

Meh. The premise seemed interesting enough -- Philip Roth's double going around the world spouting off about things Roth doesn't believe, confusing the world about Roth's intentions -- but it was just SO long and overdone.