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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