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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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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  3. Overview. American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth examines in detail one man’s quest for the American dream and the fragility of the entire enterprise. Roth, one of the most critically acclaimed novelists of the 20th century, focuses his narrative microscope through the eyes of Nathan Zuckerman, his literary alter ego from whose perspective ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. Dec 23, 2010 · 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. Philip Roths masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America.

  7. About American Pastoral. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a compulsively readable elegy for Americas promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and “one of Roths most powerful novels ever” (The New York Times).

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