The Plot Against America: A Novel
by Philip Roth
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Author: Philip RothEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09
ISBN: 0618509283
Number of pages: 391
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Book Review: "Fatherland" better as Nazi alternate histories go; still worth your time
Summary: 4 Stars
As alternate histories of the Nazis go, Robert Harris' exquisitely envisioned "Fatherland" is a better read than "The Plot Against America." That said, Roth's book is a compellingly good read...for about the first 300 pages. Then, it gets (out of the blue) pretty far out there in terms of far-fetched plot devices (this one is a doozy), the narrative goes confusingly out of time sequence for the first time (recounted month-by-month up to that point, we're suddenly launched a few months into the future and then just as suddenly jerked back to fill in the missing months...odd), and the book comes to a screeching halt at page 362 (paperback edition) with pretty much only one thing out a jumble of loose ends wrapped up.
While I was disappointed at the book's rather weak ending, I still felt it worth my time and money. I was especially impressed with the amount of scholarship Roth put into his very rich Postscript (in which he lays out the real histories of each of his main protagonists and presents the full text of a speech made by Charles Lindbergh three months prior to Peal Harbor). Also, the level of detail Roth puts into describing his family dynamics is breathtakingly rich. There's a whole world described there that's nothing short of fascinating.
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