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American Pastoral / 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.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Fiction
Classification	F-ROT-A
Publisher	London, England, Vintage Books, 1998
Subject	FictionFathers and daughters--FictionBombings--Fiction.Jewish businesspeople--Fiction.United States--Social conditions--1960-1980--Fiction.
Description	423
ISBN	9780099275350
URL	https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7949333?q=american+pastoral+&c=book&sort=holdings+desc&_=1576551966802&versionId=29009220https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11650.American_Pastoral