{"product_id":"2940171642136","title":"Deception","description":"\"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 adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already nervously half-resigned. The action consists of conversation - mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialogue - sharp, rich, playful, inquiring, \"moving,\" as Hermione Lee writes, \"on a scale of pain from furious bafflement to stoic gaiety\" - is nearly all there is to this audiobook, and all there needs to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fiendishly clever piece of work . . . an amazing feat. . . . He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist.\" - William Pritchard, Hudson Review","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162539245808,"sku":"2940171642136","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171642136_p0.jpg?v=1763741274","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171642136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}