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050	0	0	_aPS3568.O855 _bA77 1998
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100	1		_aRoth, Philip.
245	1	0	_aAmerican pastoral / _cPhilip Roth.
250			_a1st Vintage International ed.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c1998.
300			_a423 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_a"Originally published in hard cover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.
520			_aPublisher 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.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1961-1969 _xFiction.
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