American Pastoral
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In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified
greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises
of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist
is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a
devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his
father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving,
triumphant post-war America. 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 political 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, this is Roth's masterpiece.In
1997 Philip 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, previously awarded to John Dos
Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He has
twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics
Circle Award. He has 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’.Recently Roth received PEN’s two most
prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award ‘for a body of
work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship’
and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American
Fiction, given to a writer whose ‘scale of achievement over a
sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of
American literature’. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker
Prize.Roth is the only living American writer to have his work
published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of
America.
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Philip Roth
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Philip Roth
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Random/Vintage
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