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American Pastoral was a scrupulously researched book: Roth traveled to Gloversville, New York to learn about the glove-making industry and interviewed Yolande Fox, the winner of the 1951 Miss America pageant, while developing the character of Dawn Dwyer.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall—of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of...
May 12, 1997 · AMERICAN PASTORAL. by Philip Roth ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 12, 1997. bookshelf. shop now. Roth's elegiac and affecting new novel, his 18th, displays a striking reversal of form—and content—from his most recent critical success, the Portnoyan Sabbath's Theater (1995).
Apr 7, 2020 · American pastoral. by. Roth, Philip. Publication date. 1998. Topics. United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : Vintage Books.
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.
