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American Pastoral: American Trilogy 1 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375701429)
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xPULITZER 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).
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
ISBN-10: 0375701427
ISBN-13: 9780375701429
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/03/1998
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Commonweal 06/18/2004 pg. 28
Newsweek 10/01/2007 pg. 80
Time 02/18/2008 pg. 60
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 98
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 48
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 15
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
ISBN-10: 0375701427
ISBN-13: 9780375701429
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/03/1998
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Commonweal 06/18/2004 pg. 28
Newsweek 10/01/2007 pg. 80
Time 02/18/2008 pg. 60
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 98
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 48
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 15
By Philip Roth
xPHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.
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