by Philip Roth · Vintage Books USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099771814
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«American Pastoral» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by Vintage Books USA in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Seymour «Swede» Levov, a prosperous glove manufacturer from Newark, embodies the American dream. In 1968, his daughter Merry, already a fanatical teenager, commits an act of political terrorism that unravels the family idyll and drags him into the chaos of sixties America. It is an elegy to the promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic harmony.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998 and is the first installment of Philip Roth's American Trilogy.
A work for readers of literary fiction and historical novels interested in family drama and the crisis of the American dream.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
