American Pastoral

American Trilogy (1)

By Philip Roth

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece—an elegy for the American 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 longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.

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Awards

Man Booker International Prize WINNER 2011

Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1998

Praise

"One of Roth’s most powerful novels ever…moving, generous and ambitious…a fiercely affecting work of art." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Dazzling…a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent novel…gorgeous." —Boston Globe

"At once expansive and painstakingly detailed…. The pages of American Pastoral crackle with the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at work." —San Francisco Chronicle

About Philip Roth

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold… More about Philip Roth

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Published by Vintage
Feb 03, 1998 | 432 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375701429

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