An edition of American Pastoral (1997)

American Pastoral

2016 Vintage edition (1); movie tie-in
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An edition of American Pastoral (1997)

American Pastoral

2016 Vintage edition (1); movie tie-in
  • 4.0 (8 ratings) ·
  • 56 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life sustained by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.

Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede's bountiful American luck deserts him.

The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society.

Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.

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Publisher
Vintage
Language
English
Pages
423

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Cover of: American Pastoral
American Pastoral
2016, Vintage
Paperback in English - 2016 Vintage edition (1); movie tie-in
Cover of: American Pastoral
American Pastoral
2016, Vintage
Paperback in English - 2016 Vintage edition (1); movie tie-in
Cover of: American Pastoral
American Pastoral
2016?, Vintage International
Paperback in English - First Vintage International edition, February 1998; Movie tie-in
Cover of: Американская пастораль
Американская пастораль
2007, Limbus Press
hardcover in Russian
Cover of: American Pastoral
American Pastoral
1998-02, Vintage International
Paperback in English - First Vintage International edition (1)
Cover of: American Pastoral
American Pastoral
1998, Vintage
Paperback in English - printing (6)
Cover of: American Pastoral
American Pastoral
1998-02, Vintage International
Paperback in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
Cover of: American pastoral
American pastoral
1997, Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover in English - printing (1)

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Edition Notes

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1998.

Published in
London
Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.O855 A44 2016

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
423 pages
Number of pages
423

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28246903M
Internet Archive
americanpastoral0000roth_k0b4
ISBN 10
1784706450
ISBN 13
9781784706456
OCLC/WorldCat
958098110
Goodreads
60406586

Work Description

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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American Trilogy 1997-2000

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