American Pastoral: American Trilogy 1 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century--a compulsively readable elegy for America's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roth's most powerful novels ever" (The New York Times).

A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of 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 loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager--a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of domestic terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into 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.

Author: Philip Roth
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 02/03/1998
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 434
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780375701429


Award: 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Fiction