About this title: Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1994, Philip Roth's novel is about an American Jewish novelist named "Philip Roth," who is actually an imposter posing as the real Philip Roth. The imposter, Moishe Pipik, outrages Jews all over the world by advocating that Jews in Israel should go back where they came from. Roth threatens to sue, and Pipik ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Good in Good jacket. 81-W-Add ex library Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Good in Good jacket. 270-Y-Add Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Good in Good jacket. 19-X Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Very Good. {Like New/VG-} Hardback with Dust Jacket. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear with some some edge tears; book is in unread condition. FIRST EDITION. Remainder mark on bottom of page edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1/1/1993
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Like New. Hardback w/ DJ. Dust jacket has noticeable shelf wear/corner rubs/edge rubs. Otherwise, You are buying a Book in NEW condition. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993-01-01
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Good in Good jacket. Dust jacket shows some wear and tear. No highlighting or underlining. Remainder mark on bottom page edge. You're gonna love this book! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Like New. {Like New/VG++} Hardback with Dust Jacket. Dust jacket has light edgewear. FIRST EDITION. Remainder mark on bottom of page edges. read more
Description: Fair. Different cover (goldish color with maroon picture). Cover shows moderate edgewear. Several pages have been dogeared, and pages contain some highlights & underlining. Still a decent reading copy. spine is uncreased. G1a. read more
"This wasn't bad, but I just didn't get as wrapped up in it as I did other Roth novels. Roth is always good, but this just didn't strike me as his best."
"Definitely not Roth's best -too many angry shouting old guys- but the beginning of the novel, when the narrator gets hit by depression is superb. Is the Palestian guy in Ramallah supposed to refer to Edward Said?"
"Operation Shylock was a great book. Sort of. I mean, it made me think, and laugh, and think some more. It was really well written and the themes explored are truly genius. But, I got this feeling now that he is "PHILIP ROTH: GREAT LIVING WRITER" he doesn't have to edit anymore. The book is 398 pages and there are times I thought this guy is just rolling, he's just letting it all come out and he isn't looking back. Sometimes that's really great. And, sometimes it's just tedious. People in this book are constantly monologuing to each other. One monologue ran on for eight pages. I felt like saying, take a breath. But, then he says something brilliant or funny and you forgive him.
"...there are occasional anti-Semites, who engage in nothing more really than a little anti-Semitism as a social lubricant at parties and business lunches; moderate anti-Semites, who can control their anti-Semitism and even keep it a secret when they have to; and then there are the all-out anti-Semites, the real career haters, who may perhaps have begun as moderate anti-Semites but who eventually are consumed by what turns out in them to be a progressively debilitating disease."" -Operation Shylock
In the book (which is fiction), he writes about himself Philip Roth the writer meeting another man also named Philip Roth who happens to look exactly like him and is posing as Philip Roth the writer. He explores issues about his self as a writer and as a Jew, his loyalties to America and Israel. He explores Zionism and Diasporism. He explores the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. He attends the court proceedings for John Demjanjuk and muses on whether or not this man is Ivan the Terrible (and if he WAS, is it possible that he is no longer that same man). Name a dichotomy, he explores it. Name a Jewish issue, he explores it.
"You are that marvelous, unlikely, most magnificent phenomenon, the truly liberated Jew. The Jew who is not accountable. The Jew who finds the world perfectly to his liking. The comfortable Jew. The happy Jew. Go. Choose. Take. Have. You are the blessed Jew condemned to nothing, least of all to our historical struggle."
"No. I said, "not a hundred percent true. I am a happy Jew condemned to nothing who is condemned, however, from time to time to listen to superior Jewish windbags reveling in how they are condemned to everything. Is the show finally over?" -Operation Shylock
There are sections in the book where you can't go for more than two or three sentences and not read the word jewish or jew. It's a very Jewish Book. It sounds like a weird thing to say, but it is the most Jewish book I've ever read. Which, I found interesting. As a Mormon, I feel like my religion is a huge part of me. A part I couldn't let go if I wanted to. I used to think it might be similar to what Catholics and Jews feel like. After reading this, I really don't think so. I think it's very different when race and religion are barely distinguished, and your history is that much more complex and long."
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