The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany.

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

A sensation

* Sunday Times *
A polemical classic * Esquire *

Brilliant

* Metro *
One of the best writers of dialogue in the history of inverted commas * The Times *
A reverberating celebration of family, community and humanity * Sunday Times *

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.

Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which 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 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.

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ISBN 13	9780099478560
ISBN 10	0099478560
Title	The Plot Against America
Author	Philip Roth
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2005-10-06
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2005
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