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May 16, 2005
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
| I have always loved Philip Roth's books, but I have never been so in awe of his skill as a writer as I was reading The Plot Against America. This is a true master at the top of his game. It seems like every choice he made was the perfect choice and it reads so naturally that none of them seems like a conscious choice at all.
Told as if it is a true story from the author's past, involving events that happened to his family and him, the characters are so richly (and sympathetically) drawn that one wonders how much of each character is invented and how much is real. |  |
Beyond being a powerful personal story about a family in crisis, this is also a truly fascinating look at history. Imagining a wartime America in which Charles Lindbergh, aviation hero and real-life anti-semite, is elected president and subsequently pacts with Hitler's Germany to keep the US out of the war, Roth paints a frighteningly possible-seeming tale of fear and persecution for America's Jews. Although the events get out of hand awfully quickly at the end of the story, the build-up of tension from the point of view of one Jewish family in Newark is so expertly crafted, the final chapters read like a suspense thriller and the denouement is both satisfying and devastating.
Posted by JoshHornik at May 16, 2005 05:20 PM
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