Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of
prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America
'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life
cocooned 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.
Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in
an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels and cemented Roth's
reputation as one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth
century. 'Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom
about American idealism, and full of terrific fun...
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
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