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Philip Roth: Novels 1993-1995: Operation Shylock / Sabbath's Theater
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Overview
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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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781598530780 |
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Publisher: | Library of America |
Publication date: | 09/02/2010 |
Series: | Library of America Philip Roth Edition Series , #6 |
Pages: | 832 |
Sales rank: | 1,129,776 |
Product dimensions: | 5.14(w) x 8.11(h) x 1.36(d) |
About the Author

Philip Roth, acclaimed author of Portnoy's Complaint, The Human Stain and many other works of fiction, is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of Arts from the White House.
Hometown:
ConnecticutDate of Birth:
March 19, 1933Place of Birth:
Newark, New JerseyEducation:
B.A. in English, Bucknell University, 1954; M.A. in English, University of Chicago, 1955