American Pastoral
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: September 27, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780099771814
First sentence: THE SWEDE. During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete.