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The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works continues with two novels that heralded the beginning of a more than decade-long creative explosion-one remarkable in an older writer and hailed by critics as unparalleled in American literary history. In the diabolically imaginative "Operation Shylock" (1993), a character named Philip Roth encounters a look-alike who claims Roth's identity and who tours Israel promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews-proselytizing the "real" Roth is intent on stopping, even if it means impersonating his impersonator. "This splendidly wicked book" is how the critic Frank Kermode described "Sabbath's Theater "(1995), a comic masterpiece of epic proportions whose gargantuan hero, Mickey Sabbath, grieving the loss of his unsurpassable mistress, embarks on a turbulent journey into his past besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Philip Roth: Novels 1993-1995 (LOA #205)
• Subtitle: Operation Shylock / Sabbath's Theater
• Author: Philip Roth
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 842
• EAN: 9781598530780
• ISBN: 9781598530780
• ID: 05361830
• Publisher: The Library of America
• Weight: 732 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 131 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2010

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