America has not read enough of Philip Roth - Bernard-Henri Levy * New Statesman *Ī dark, humane masterpiece, Roth is at the peak of his powers * The Times *Īnother frighteningly intense performance * Sunday Telegraph * In his 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself. It's one of the great political novels for its depiction of how alterations in power affect ordinary men and women, and how obedience brings disaster.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9780099478560 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 277 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm MEDIA REVIEWS
The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism' Guardian 'Another frighteningly intense performance' Sunday Telegraph 'A dark, humane masterpiece, Roth is at the peak of his powers' The Times What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new novel by Pulitzer-prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst. Not only had Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial 'understanding' with Adolf Hitler. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide inthe1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. Turned wrong way round, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as 'History', harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything.
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