The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American VoiceFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M08 21 - 336 pages From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity |
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... Roth , San Francisco Chronicle Book Review ( front cover review ) " This is a powerful , confounding , and disturbing book about taking the na- tion literally , at its word . . . . The past does not go gently , Marcus warns . It haunts ...
... Roth and the Lost Republic 41 American Berserk : Bill Pullman's Face 101 American Pastoral : Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer 147 Crank Prophet Bestride America , Grinning : David Thomas 201 EPILOGUE Kansas 259 Works Cited 285 Acknowledgments ...
... Roth published from 1997 to 2004 , from Amer- ican Pastoral to The Plot Against America , or in efforts as weightless as the facial expressions of the B - movie actress Sheryl Lee - a few seconds on the screen forming the vortex of a ...
... Roth - in his fashioning of an America where a settled landscape of virtue and possibility changes back into a frontier of temptation and ruin others feel for the role of prophet as such ; these are the people who can imagine that they ...
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Contents
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Philip Roth and the Lost Republic | 41 |
Bill Pullmans Face | 101 |
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer | 147 |
David Thomas | 201 |
Kansas | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |