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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 0375701427
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100060556
- Release Date: February 1, 1998
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #33916 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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- #465 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "American Pastoral"Browse more products related to "Philip Roth"Review"One of Roth's most powerful novels ever, a big, rough-hewn work built on a grand design, a book that is as moving, generous, and ambitious as his last novel, 'Sabbath's Theatre', was sour, solipsistic, and narrow." "'American Pastoral' is elaborately patterned and layered, ingeniously crafted to contain, even as it amplifies, a cathartic, barbaric yawp." "A touching creative act." "What makes the book difficult and disturbing--what makes it great--is that although the outcome is foreclosed, the moral is not. This is a four-hundred-page novel that ends with a question mark." "The mixture of rage and elegy in the book is remarkable, and you have only to pause over the prose to feel how beautifully it is elaborated, to see that Mr. Roth didn't entirely abandon Henry James after all." "Mark Twain said about Wagner's music that it was better than it sounded. The cruel thing to say about Roth would be that 'American Pastoral' is better than it reads. Inside this long, viscous book, a solid, serious allegory struggles to get out." "The pages of 'American Pastoral' crackle with the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at work." "Somber and raging." Publisher's noteAn ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk. "Never before has Roth written with clear conviction".--"Time". WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE"Dazzling...a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent novel...gorgeous." --Boston Globe"As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our centurys promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roths 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 fathers glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swedes beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swedes 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 longer-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. AnnotationNathan Zuckerman, now in his early 60s, agrees to write a tribute to the dead father of an old friend and, in researching the man's life, becomes intrigued with the mystery of why someone who seemed to have been blessed in every way--with a happy marriage, successful business, good health--turned into such an intensely bitter and unhappy man during the 1960s. The novel serves as Roth's assessment of the domestic casualties of the Vietnam War. If You Enjoy "American Pastoral (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "American Pastoral (Paperback)" by Philip Roth (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary BestsellersFiction & Literature Bestselling BooksExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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