American Pastoral (Paperback, 1st Vintage International ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	February 1998
Authors:	Philip Roth
Dimensions:	203 x 130 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	423
Edition:	1st Vintage International ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-70142-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-375-70142-7
Barcode:	9780375701429

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