{"product_id":"9781598530780","title":"Novels, 1993-1995: Operation Shylock \/ Sabbath's Theater","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eOperation Shylock\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003cbr\u003e \"This splendidly wicked book\" is how the critic Frank Kermode described \u003ci\u003eSabbath's Theater \u003c\/i\u003e(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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036877373680,"sku":"9781598530780","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598530780_p0.jpg?v=1763814118","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598530780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}