The Plot Against America

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• 'The Plot Against America' by Philip Roth

  Essentially Roth has created a fascinating and wholly believable history that never was: an America that sided with the Nazis during the Second World War. He makes the renowned aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh the thirty-third president (he defeats ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

• The relentless unforeseen

  The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 391pp, Cape, £16.99 When the hubristic, newly elected US president boasts of America's invulnerability to foreign attack, the sense of imminent calamity is overwhelming. The title invokes 9/11, but the novel is ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  The Plot Against America is my third Roth novel. There is something very enticing about the way he manages his stories. I guess it is because he writes stories that are so true and so steeped in realism that I can without any difficult imagine those characters as real people that walk this earth. An ... (continue)

  The Plot Against America is my third Roth novel. There is something very enticing about the way he manages his stories. I guess it is because he writes stories that are so true and so steeped in realism that I can without any difficult imagine those characters as real people that walk this earth. And that's probably true as well, because many of Roth's story takes place in cities that are almost 100 percent copies of his childhood hometown, Newark. Before I would have kept away from authors that derive too much of their literary powers from their personal experience, assuming that they lack imagination to create complete new worlds and characters. Even now I shrink from reading all forms of biographies or autobiographies. To me these kind of publications show their creators' total lack of any sound ability of judgement on their own significance in other people's lives. But enough of this, for Roth is a great writer, and biographical or not, the way he manages his sentences remains beautiful, fluent, well-crafted. For a person that likes to read aloud, his novels provide absolute enjoyment. Sometimes readers will come across a book with a fascinating plot but poor narration. Roth's novel, be the plot fascinating or not, is always powerfully narrated.
  For anyone who is interested in this author, I would further recommend his other novel, The Human Stain. It is a story even more enchanting and dramatical. It is my first Roth novel, as well. A very good one.

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  I like Roth's style and I really liked the plot! :D

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  Bleedindarklove said on Oct 15, 2008 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

• 391 p. ; 24 cm.

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• English Books
• Paperback 416 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 1400079497
• ISBN-13: 9781400079490
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Sep 27, 2005
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and eBook
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