Exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, Roth presents in "Deception" the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of the novel are Philip and his lover, an Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage, and the conversation that ensues before and after making love | Deception by PHILIP ROTH, Paperback | Indigo Chapters