Operation Shylock: A Confession (Pen/Faulkner Award)

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD – 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 Anonymous

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

In 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.

Author: Philip Roth
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/15/1994
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.27w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780679750291
Language: English