American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
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As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar.years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.
For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick- witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its character.s, this is Roth's masterpiece.
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facelift surgery, Vietnam War, Marines, Jewish Americans, History, Pastoral fiction, Anglo-American literature, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, fiction, domestic fiction, social conditions, social life and customs, family relations, open_syllabus_project, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, generalShowing 8 featured editions. View all 26 editions?
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2016, Vintage
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2016, Vintage
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1998-02, Vintage International
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1998-02, Vintage International
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American pastoral
1997, Houghton Mifflin Company
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"Originally published in hard cover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.
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American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".
American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Seven years later, the novel was included in Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, a list covering the period between 1923 and 2005. In 2006, it was one of the runners-up to Toni Morrison's Beloved, in the "What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.
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