American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
Contributors: American pastoral
Edition: 2016 Vintage edition (1); movie tie-in
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9781784706456
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Social conditions; Terrorism; Life change events; Families; Fiction
Description: 'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life sustained by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.

Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede's bountiful American luck deserts him.

The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society.

Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.
Notes: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1998.