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Publisher: Vintage
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN: 9780375701429
Classics, Fiction
American Pastoral
by
Philip Roth
American Pastoral by
Philip Roth
Reviews
"One of Roth's most powerful novels ever ... moving, generous and ambitious ... a fiercely affecting work of art."
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Summary
Swede Levy, 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 postural and Ito the indigenous American berserk.
Pulitzer Prize Winner