{"product_id":"operation-shylock-a-confession-9780063499737","title":"Operation Shylock: A Confession","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The uncontested master of comic irony.\" -\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Diabolically clever, engaging. . . . [A] white-water unstoppable narrative. . . . Roth is so spelndidly convincing. . . that the result is kind of a dizzying exhilaration.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be ficftion), 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 \u003cbr\u003ehis own impersonator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, \u003ci\u003eOperation Shylock\u003c\/i\u003e barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063499737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604522758325,"sku":"9780063499737","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/operation-shylock-a-confession-9780063499737","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}