num_pages: 423
description: Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece—an elegy for the American century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Swede Levy, 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 loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American postural and Ito the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.—from the back cover
language: English
title: American Pastoral
titlecomplete: American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
characters: Seymour Levov, Nathan Zuckerman, Dawn Dwyer, Meredith Levov, Jerry Levov
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, Historical Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 77829
places: Newark, New Jersey, New Jersey
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman, The American Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Audie Award
category: Solo Narration - Male, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage Books