by Philip Roth · B Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466300117
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«Pastoral americana» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by B Ediciones in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
The novel revolves around Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a former high-school star athlete settled into a family life that seems perfect in postwar America. When his daughter Merry becomes involved in the radicalism of the sixties and commits a violent act, that balance is broken. Philip Roth portrays disillusionment, the loss of innocence and the cracks in family relationships during a decade of strong social upheaval.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. This Spanish edition was published in 2000.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in American narrative and family drama.
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.
