Operation Shylock: A Confession
What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting...
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What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse of the Jews. Roth decides to stop him - even if that means impersonating his impersonator. Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099307914 (009930791X)
Publish date: June 16th 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
Contemporary,
Modern,
United States,
Israel
On the surface it is an international spy story set in Jerusalem (mostly). In fact it ponders identity, dissimulation, Zionism, Anti-Semitism, what it is to be a good Jew. Lots of fun, but lots to think about as well. I wrote more about it (before I finished it, but still) on my blog at http://beths...
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