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Also by Phillip Roth:

Everyman, April 2006
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The Plot Against America, September 2004
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American Pastoral, February 1998
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Portnoy's Complaint, September 1994
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Goodbye Columbus, January 1994
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AMERICAN PASTORAL
By: Phillip Roth

Winner of Pulitzer Prize

Vintage
February 1998
432 pages
ISBN: 0375701427
Trade Size (reprint)
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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 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 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.

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