'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book Review
He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling clarity. Deception is fiendishly clever, as it dances with the conventions of the novel, and redefines the boundaries between fiction and reality.
- ISBN10 0671703749
- ISBN13 9780671703745
- Publish Date 10 March 1990 (first published 31 December 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Hardcover
- Language English