The Plot against America by Philip Roth audiobook
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The Plot against America

By Philip Roth
Read by Ron Silver

Blackstone Publishing 9781400079490

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 4 Formats: CD
  • 4 Formats: Library CD
  • 4 Formats: MP3 CD
  • 4 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9781504693745

  • ISBN: 9781504693721

  • ISBN: 9781504693738

  • ISBN: 9781504708555

Runtime: 13.38 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century

A New York Times Notable Book

A Washington Post Staff Pick of 7 Great Political Books

A BookRiot Pick of 15 Great Alternative History Books and Series

A New York Public Library Staff Pick 

A Pop Sugar Pick of Books to Read before They Become Hit TV Shows

A BuzzFeed Books Pick for Spring

In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.

In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.

For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America—and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Enraging and discomfiting, imaginative and utterly—terrifyingly—believable.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Roth has written more subtle political books (The Human Stain, American Pastoral), but none are eerier than this one, particularly given the current state of the world.“ —Washington Post
“The author wonderfully balances politics and a boy’s view of a seemingly idyllic America shattered by forces he cannot truly understand.” —Library Journal
“An inspiring portrait of a family struggling to survive the days of perpetual fear. Their love is the real America, and no s—hole president will ever take that from us.” —Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)
“It’s a nightmare, and it becomes more nightmarish—and also funnier and more bizarre—as is goes along.” —New Yorker
“Ambitious and chilling.” —USA Today
“When we’re ten pages into the book, our own world starts to seem like a flimsy fantasy.” —Time
“A terrific political novel…You turn the pages, astonished and frightened.” —New York Times Book Review
“It’s startling how allegorical it is to our current political moment.” —NPR
"Not necessarily a comforting read but it is an immersive one that will take you to another America, at least for a few hours.” —BuzzFeed
“The overall effect of the novel is staggering. Roth has constructed a brilliantly telling and disturbing historical prism by which to refract the American psyche as it pertains to war.” —Booklist (starred review)

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Author

Author Bio: Philip Roth

Author Bio: Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Book Award, and many more. He also won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union and in the same year received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years “for the entire work of the recipient.”

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 13.38
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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