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"With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes—and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception are two... read more
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“i always was trying to be more or less like other people and worried what they think about me. Now I know I'm different. I want to be mysef”
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“Don't ask me why. But I can't spend the whole rest of my life being bored, apart from everything else.”
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“But there are people, aren't there, who you don't actually want to do violence to - you just want to smear their faces like paint.”
First Sentence edit
'I'll write them down. You begin.'
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Roth (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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