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...ominous signs that the bailout may be in trouble pushed public outrage over the S&L crisis to a new level of intensity. Demanded Congressman Toby Roth, a Wisconsin Democrat: "Is this a bottomless pit for taxpayers?" Said colleague Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York: "By this point it was supposed to have been an issue for accountants and bureaucrats only. Yet it remains the country's No. 1 problem and the public's No. 1 cause for concern...
DECEPTION by Philip Roth (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). The master deceiver again teases his fans with a fictive fan dance about a writer named Philip who may or may not be having an affair with a married woman who may or may not be a character in a novel in progress. The woman he lives with doesn't buy it, but readers who appreciate first-rate talent will be thoroughly taken...
...past, Roth does it with the literary equivalent of fun-house mirrors. The Roth-like character in Deception is a distortion of Roth, the man in the book-jacket photo whose intense gaze can penetrate 18 inches of solid Philistine. Readers attempting to nail the real Roth end up with a tinkling of broken images...
...talking-head format allows Roth to play to his strengths of critical intelligence and pitch-perfect ear. Few writers can touch him when it comes to the illusion of natural dialogue or the comic possibilities latent in high- mindedness. Deception is not a full orchestration of Roth's abilities but a chamber version. Stripped of narrative, the voices are free to play off each other. They may also offer the most delicious deception of all. Could this skeletal novel be just loosely stitched exercises from Roth's notebooks? Mirrors, mirrors on the wall, who's the falsest of them...
...Philip Roth's new novel Deception is an eavesdropper's fantasy. -- Shana Alexander's When She Was Bad recounts Bess Myerson's fall from grace...