American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Taste attributes: dramafamilypoliticalfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticemotive & stirringsocial commentarycomplex relationshiptroubled leads
Boxlist takeA grounded, weighty novel: stirring and unsavoury. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star 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 during the presidency of Lyndon B.
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- Philip Roth
- Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 432
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