by Philip Roth · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419013279
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Considered a masterpiece of contemporary literature, 'American Pastoral' is a lucid and ruthless chronicle of the lost illusions of an entire generation. The story follows Swede Levov, a legendary Newark athlete who, after a seemingly perfect post-war life, sees his world crumble when his daughter Merry becomes a political fanatic capable of committing acts of terrorism. It is a powerful, intelligent, and deeply moving novel about the breakdown of the American dream. This Catalan edition, published by La Magrana, captures the intensity and energy of Philip Roth's prose.
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.
