Plot Against America
«A dark, humane masterpiece, Roth is at the peak of his powers»
The Times
'The Plot Against America is an epic built - painstakingly, passionately, near perfectly - of the small structures of the particular. A dark, human masterpiece. Roth is at the peak of his powers' The Times Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 400
- ISBN
- 9780099478560
- Utgivelsesår
- 2005
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2005.
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«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
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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
«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
«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
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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 polemical classic»
Esquire
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Brilliant
» Metro