The Plot Against America
$32.77
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2015
Summary
‘In his 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself’ - Bernard-Henri Levy
‘He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive’ - Guardian
‘Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand everything…’<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099478560 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099478560 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
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. – Linda Grant * New Statesman *
In his 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself… America has not read enough of Philip Roth – Bernard-Henri Lévy * New Statesman *
A dark, humane masterpiece, Roth is at the peak of his powers * The Times *
Another frighteningly intense performance * Sunday Telegraph *
The word genius doesn’t seem excessive… The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism * Guardian *
Untouchable…he is bequeathing us a body of work that adds up to the most accomplished dissection of American political, social and personal mores
* Observer *Magnificent. Roth is writing the best books of his life. He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive
* Guardian *Subtle, persuasive and unsettling. A brilliantly troubling and heartening novel * Sunday Times *
Many passages in The Plot Against America echo feelings voiced today by vulnerable Americans – immigrants and minorities as alarmed by Trump’s election as the Jews of Newark are frightened by Lindbergh’s * New Yorker *
Dazzling. The most exciting novelist writing today
* Independent on Sunday *Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). It was his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers. American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on May 22, 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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