America's flight from freedom Philip Roth may be in his seventies, but he is a novelist at the height of his powers, says Christopher Tayler

The Sunday Telegraph London | September 26, 2004| | Copyright

The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth

Jonathan Cape, pounds 16.99, 391 pp

pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

IT WOULD be wrong to say that Philip Roth staged a comeback in the late 1990s: he was never away. But, until a few years ago, there was definitely a feeling that he'd staked out his territory and settled down for good.

The territory in question was the land of novelistic self- scrutiny: future Roth books, we could reasonably expect, would chiefly be about disillusioned, Philip Roth-like novelists who would be harried by the demands of celebrity, obsessed with Jewishness, ...

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