American Pastoral - (Vintage International) by Philip Roth (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk. "Never before has Roth written with clear conviction".--"Time". <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize<br></b><br>Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece--an elegy for the American 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. <p/>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 longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, <i>American Pastoral</i> gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"One of Roth's most powerful novels ever...moving, generous and ambitious...a fiercely affecting work of art." --Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Dazzling...a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent novel...gorgeous." --<i>Boston Globe <p/></i>"At once expansive and painstakingly detailed.... The pages of <b>American Pastoral</b> crackle with the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at work." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for <i>American Pastoral</i>. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at<i> </i>the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American<i> </i>Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.<i> </i>He twice won the National Book Award and the National<i> </i>Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner<i> </i>Award three times. In 2005 <i>The Plot Against America </i>received<i> </i>the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding<i> </i>historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004."<i> </i>Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: <i> </i>in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities<i> </i>Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth<i> </i>recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018. <p/><br></p>
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