American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
Recommended by Lawrence Kaplan, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #25 in Americana, Ranked #39 in Pulitzer Prize — see more rankings.
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.
For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a... more
For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a... more
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Lawrence Kaplan It’s a beautifully written book and I would suggest it for anyone interested in why American foreign policy matters. (Source)
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