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The Dying Animal

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In The Dying Animal (2001; filmed as Elegy, 2008), an aging literary professor reflects on a life of emotional isolation. The Plot Against America (2004; TV miniseries 2020) tells a counterhistorical story of fascism in the United States during World War II.
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