THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0618509283 / ISBN 13: 9780618509287

Verlag: New York City, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004, 2004

Beschreibung

1st Printing. 391 pages. Published in 2004. The author's twenty-second novel. One of the greatest novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America". His counter-factual historical novel. Explores a brilliantly imagined scenario of mass fear and takes it to its logical conclusion. So here goes: Charles A. Lindbergh defeats FDR for the Presidency in 1940. Lindbergh captured the country's imagination twice: Through his solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 and the tragic kidnapping and murder of his son. He was the prototypical American hero: Brave, handsome, a "role model". He was also an isolationist, a Nazi sympathizer, and a Fascist. It is these latter attributes that inform the novel. "Roth interweaves historical names such as Walter Winchell, who tries to run against Lindbergh. The twist at the end is more than surprising, it is positively ingenious. Roth has written a magnificent novel, arguably his best work in a long time. It is tempting to equate his scenario with current events, but resist, resist. Of course it is a cautionary tale, but beyond that, it is a contribution to American letters by a man working at the top of his powers" (Valerie Ryan). In his maturity and after a lifetime of brilliant and prolific writing, Roth has pulled off the unthinkable: Another masterpiece. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0618509283.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
• Verlag: New York City, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0618509283
• ISBN-13: 9780618509287
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: no

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating a cordial accord with Adolf Hitler, accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies, and igniting a storm of fear for Jewish families throughout America. 150,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times.

In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.”

Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award for “a body of work…of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship” and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career…places him or her in the highest rank of American literature.”

Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.