TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roth,Philip
TI  - American pastoral
SN  - 0375701427
AV  - PS3568.O855 A77 1998
U1  - 813/.54 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 1961-1969
KW  - Fiction
N1  - "Originally published in hard cover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso
N2  - Publisher description:  As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our 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.   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 longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece
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