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American Pastoral is a Philip Roth fiction novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey.
May 12, 1997 · 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.
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Dec 23, 2010 · Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels and cemented Roth’s reputation as one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century.
Author Nathan Zuckerman reflects on the life of a former classmate, Seymour “the Swede” Levov, a tall, blonde, athletically gifted youth and a local hero in Zuckerman’s Jewish neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey.
Feb 3, 1998 · 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).
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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).
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Jan 1, 1997 · Considered by many to be Roth’s masterpiece, American Pastoral tells the tragic tale of Swede Levov, a golden boy growing up in postwar Newark whose life is tipped upside down by the turmoil of the 1960s.
