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Michael Wood: Philip Roth’s counter-historical bestseller, 4 November 2004
The Plot against America
by Philip Roth.
Cape, 391 pp., £16.99, September 2004,0 224 07453 9 Show More
by Philip Roth.
Cape, 391 pp., £16.99, September 2004,
“... Because what’s history?’ a character asks rhetorically in Philip Roth’s astonishing new novel. ‘History is everything that happens everywhere. Even here in Newark. Even here on Summit Avenue.’ And is history also what people are afraid of, even on Summit Avenue? In a material sense it can’t be, since we fear, by definition, what hasn’t happened yet ... ”