Posted AT 11:34 AM EDT on 06/05/06
Journey to the end of Roth
DENNIS BOCK
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Everyman
By Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin,
182 pages, $31.95
In The Plot Against America, Philip Roth, perhaps the greatest living U.S. novelist -- and certainly America's most consistently ingenious and autobiographical -- spins a "what if" scenario into a startling global reality: The White House cozies up to Hitler and keeps the United States out of the war.
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