{"product_id":"9780679752943","title":"Deception","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With the lover everyday life recedes,\" Roth writes—and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in \u003cb\u003eDeception\u003c\/b\u003e the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of \u003cb\u003eDeception\u003c\/b\u003e 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 book's 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 book, and all there needs to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016846196976,"sku":"9780679752943","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679752943_p0.jpg?v=1763605722","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679752943","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}