false 36705634 4695 1049693 0224078690 9780224078696 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180516352m/1049693.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180516352s/1049693.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1049693.Everyman 3.42 26 The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.

The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.

The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.]]> 463 3.68 42144 4851 2005 3 1 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 15:57:35 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 08:45:53 -0800 2008 more...]]>