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American Pastoral
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780063499300
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.84
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.29 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
One of the five best novels I have ever read, maybe the best. . . . It ranks with the greatest of American fiction. --Stephen King, The New York Times
An incandescent fiction. . . . Scintillates with more Rothian wit, paradox, eloquent tantrums, and absurd pitfalls than can be counted. --Los Angeles Times Book Review
The greatest of great American novels. --Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times
Widely considered to be Roth's masterwork.--Esquire
American Pastoral is an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is 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 outlandish act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the American berserk.
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