

The Plot against America
Author: Philip Roth
Narrator: Ron Silver
Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/05/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Philip Roth
Narrator: Ron Silver
Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/05/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
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.”
In the 1990s, Philip Roth published five major works: Patrimony (1991) won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Operation Shylock (1993) won the PEN/Faulkner Award; Sabbath's Theater (1995) won the National Book Award; American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer Prize; and I Married a Communist (1998) won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union. In 1998, he was a White House recipient of the National Medal of Arts.About the reader:Ron Silver, a Tony award-winning stage actor, has starred in numerous films including Reversal of Fortune, and Enemies: A Love Story, as well as the television series Wiseguy. He was a founder of The Creative Coalition, and President of Actors' Equity Association.
Breathtaking and highly realistic, The Plot Against America is Philip Roth's vision of an alternative path history could have taken had Charles Lindbergh have not kept his anti-Semitism as a private matter, but (like Mr Trump) brought it into the political arena. In it, Roth features himself as the......more
Israel didn’t exist yet, six million European Jews hadn’t yet ceased to exist, and the local relevance of distant Palestine (under British mandate since the 1918 dissolution by the victorious Allies of the last far-flung provinces of the defunct Ottoman Empire) was a mystery to me…I pledged alle......more
I repost this because The New York Times has two of Philip Roth's (RIP) novels on their list of 100 best novels of the 21st century, at the one quarter-century mark: The Human Stain and The Plot Against America. Many Roth fans do not think this is one of his top books, but I do, and it remains very......more
Counter-factual historical fiction, in the manner of Robert Harris' Fatherland. In it, Charles Lindbergh, the anti-Semitic aviator and admirer of the Nazis, wins the U.S. presidency by campaigning against FDR on a platform of non-intervention in the European war. I think the novel has special resona......more
Alternative history that almost happened and maybe did happened to some extent. Important but quite boring book. At least for me: I don't like reading such "historical textbook style". And it was hard to comprehend sometimes probably because it's a very American. It was easy to get lost in dozens po......more
“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
“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)