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The Plot Against America
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  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446400647
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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The Plot Against America

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‘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 Lévy

'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...'

When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an 'understanding' with the Nazis promising peace between the two nations.

Growing up in the 'ghetto' of Newark, Philip Roth recounts his childhood caught in the stranglehold of this counterfactual nightmare. As America sinks into its own dark metamorphosis and Jewish families are torn apart, fear and uncertainty spread.

Who really is President Lindbergh?

And to what end has he hijacked America?
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'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
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446400647
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

About the author

Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature. In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.
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Praise for The Plot Against America

'The word genius doesn't seem excessive...utterly plausible. The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism' Guardian

'A sensation' Sunday Times

'Untouchable...he is bequeathing us a body of work that adds up to themost accomplished dissection of American political, social and personalmores' Observer

'Magnificent. Roth is writing the best books of his life. He capturesbetter than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusionof history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive' Guardian

'Subtle, persuasive and unsettling. A masterly summation of earlierpreoccupations. Autobiographical immediacy gives his fictitious reignof terror gritty actuality. Roth pays warm tribute to maternalfortitude as well as paternal strength in the face of threat. Abrilliantly troubling and heartening novel' Sunday Times

'The novel is full of his usual furious cackling; tragedy tipping intocomedy and comedy into tragedy within the space of a few sentences. Theprose is beautiful' Mail on Sunday

'A polemical classic' Esquire

'Dazzling. The most exciting novelist writing today' Independent on Sunday

'Brilliant' Metro

'One of the best writers of dialogue in the history of inverted commas' Times

'a reverberating celebration of family, community and humanity'

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