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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' Levo — a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, and the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory — who comes 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 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."The novel has the spaciousness and weight of an epic, a staggeringly successful one... But Roth’s greater triumph here, in what is possibly the finest work of his career, is the thoroughness and intensity with which he plumbs the souls of his characters. One senses he’s not so much writing about them as feeling them, probing every inch of their pain. And yet despite the compassion in his characterizat

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Author

Philip Roth

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547415970

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, American Fiction