David Brauner is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading

• 1. Introduction2. The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound3. The ‘credible incredible’ and the ‘incredible credible’: generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock4. Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath’s Theater5. History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the ‘American Trilogy’ 6. Flights of fancy and fantasies of flight: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against AmericaAfterword

David Brauner is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading

• 1. Introduction2. The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound3. The ‘credible incredible’ and the ‘incredible credible’: generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock4. Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath’s Theater5. History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the ‘American Trilogy’ 6. Flights of fancy and fantasies of flight: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against AmericaAfterword

David Brauner is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading

• 1. Introduction2. The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound3. The ‘credible incredible’ and the ‘incredible credible’: generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock4. Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath’s Theater5. History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the ‘American Trilogy’ 6. Flights of fancy and fantasies of flight: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against AmericaAfterword