The two principal characters of Operation Shylock both bear the name Philip Roth. The most fascinating of the two, the imposter, the "other" Philip Roth, enters the picture as a crazed anti-Zionist, the self-appointed father of Diasporism who plans to transport the Israelis back to Europe to save them from annihilation by Arabs or from the conflagration created by their own power. He has, also, founded an organization to reform anti-Semites, modeled along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous. Although dying from cancer, the other Roth, possessed of what Max Apple terms "a prosthetic penis," rallies sufficient manly vigor to satisfy the sexual demands of the buxom Wanda Jane (or "Jinx") Possesski — his devoted and semi-illiterate "shiksa" nurse and a recovering antiSemite. In an effort to help the reader through the labyrinth, Roth confers upon his imposter the Yiddish name of "Moishe Pipik" (Moses Bellybutton). In the end...