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American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of ...
May 12, 1997 · 80,543 ratings6,014 reviews. Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) 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' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a ...
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In American Pastoral, his twenty-second book, Philip Roth, the scop of Newark, confirms the course of native derangement. It is an astonishingly accomplished novel that, along with other...
May 18, 2024 · Philip Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died May 22, 2018, New York, New York) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works are characterized by an acute ear for dialogue, a concern with Jewish middle-class life, and the painful entanglements of sexual and familial love. In Roth’s later years his works were ...
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Summary. American Pastoral is a novel by American author Philip Roth, published in 1997. The story is concerned with the life of Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. The novel is told via a framing device.
Dec 23, 2010 · American Pastoral: The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel Kindle Edition. by Philip Roth (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.2 4,804 ratings. Book 1 of 3: American Trilogy. See all formats and editions. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a compulsively readable elegy for America’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and “one of Roth’s most powerful novels ever” (The New York Times).
