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May 12, 1997 · 80,142 ratings5,971 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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May 12, 1997 · The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. Share your opinion of this book. Roth's elegiac and affecting new novel, his 18th ...
Three of his novels, The Ghost Writer, Operation Shylock: A Confession and Letting Go, had been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction before American Pastoral won the 1998 prize. Anyone who read Michiko Kakutani’s review of the novel in The New York Times on April 15, 1997, might have known the prize was coming. She praised the book as ...
Feb 5, 2021 · The Strays of Paris by Jane Smiley is published by Mantle on 18 February (£16.99). This article was amended on 11 February 2021. In American Pastoral it is the daughter who asks her father to ...
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“American Pastoral” is an easy choice for me and would probably rate high on any novelist’s list of contemporary masterpieces. As eminently readable as it is, “American Pastoral” is ...
American Pastoral is a relentlessly mental book, full of inconclusive rumination on material often left strangely undramatized. And that, along with the book's mystifyingly haphazard structure, prevents it from becoming a "genuine imaginative event." The New York Times Book Review, Michael Wood
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. Roth later said, of his conversations with Fox, "She was very smart, very funny. ...
