Title: American Pastoral
Description: American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".

American Pastoral won the **Pulitzer Prize** in 1998. Seven years later, the novel was included in **Time's List of the 100 Best Novels**, a list covering the period between 1923 and 2005. In 2006, it was one of the runners-up to Toni Morrison's Beloved, in the "**What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years**?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.


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Also contained in:
[American Trilogy 1997-2000](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17489174W)
Subjects: facelift surgery, Vietnam War, Marines, Jewish Americans, History, Pastoral fiction, Anglo-American literature, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, fiction, domestic fiction, social conditions, social life and customs, family relations, open_syllabus_project, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Jewish businesspeople, Fathers and daughters, Bombings
Places: United States, Newark, New Jersey, Weequahic, Elizabeth, Old Rimrock, Princeton University
People: Seymour Irving Levov, Lyndon B. Johnson, Meredith Levov, Lou Levov, Sylvia Levov, Nathan Zuckerman, Jerry Levov, Dawn Dwyer, William Orcutt III
Time periods: 1961-1969, 1960-1980, 1927, 1968, February