American Pastoral
of Philip Roth
Series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman #6
Description
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998)In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levovâa legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factoryâcomes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. 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 teenagerâa 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 characters, this is Roth's masterpiece.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date March 5th 1998
- First Publication 10/28/97
- Language English
- ISBN 9780099771814
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Newark, New Jersey (United States)', 'New Jersey (United States)']
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