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American Pastoral

By Philip Roth

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American Pastoral

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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 longer-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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
423
Release Date:
1998-03-05
Publication Date:
1998-03-05
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099771810
ISBN13:
9780099771814
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
300 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
30 cm

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