American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a Jewish-American businessman and former high school athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s, which is in the novel described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels." The film rights to it were later optioned by Paramount ...
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American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a Jewish-American businessman and former high school athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s, which is in the novel described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels." The film rights to it were later optioned by Paramount Pictures. In 2006, it was one of the runners' up in the "What is the Greatest Work of American Fiction in the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.
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A Spectacular journey through the last half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of one man. He seemed to have everything....but you've got to read it to truly understand the experience. I finished it in record time, just spellbound.
I'm now a Philip Roth devotee.
ARthestrong
Feb 18, 2010
DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK
To me it encompasses the ennui and moral bankruptcy of 21st century American life as did the film "American Beauty" starring Kevin Spacey. It is sad and funny and true.
