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Pastoral americana / American Pastoral
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Hailed by American critics as a “masterpiece,” American Pastoral is a lucid and merciless chronicle of the lost illusions of an entire generation. Seymour Levov, the Swede, a legendary high school athlete, loving family man, tireless worker, and well-off heir to his father's factory, comes of age in a prosperous and triumphant postwar America. He only wants to do things right and lead a quiet life. But history is stronger than him and sweeps him away when his daughter Merry participates in a violent act against the Vietnam War. The devastating consequences will rob the Swede of any hope of happiness or spiritual coherence. In this novel, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Philip Roth immerses us in the most explosive decade of the 20th century: the 1960s. And he does so in top form, with the measured prose and intellectual subtlety that characterize him when it comes to portraying the false promises of the American dream. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 long-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
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