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American Pastoral
American Trilogy (1)
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A former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory, Seymour "Swede" Levov finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father's world.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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.
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, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.
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.
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, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
15. Februar 1998
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
432
Autor/Autorin
Philip Roth
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
323 g
Größe (L/B/H)
127/199/25 mm
ISBN
9780375701429
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A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME
"One of Roth's most powerful novels ever . . . moving, generous and ambitious . . . a fiercely affecting work of art." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Dazzling . . . a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent novel . . . gorgeous." The Boston Globe
"At once expansive and painstakingly detailed. . . . The pages of American Pastoral crackle with the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at work." San Francisco Chronicle
"Never before has Roth written with such clear conviction. Never before has he assembled so many fully formed characters." Time
"An incandescent fiction. . . . American Pastoral scintillates with more Rothian wit, paradox, eloquent tantrums and absurd pratfalls placed at the exit of each irresistible argument that can be counted. . . . He strikes a vivid blaze." Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Roth has beaten pain and rage into a beautiful shape. American Pastoral is elaborately patterned and layered, ingeniously crafted to contain, even as it amplifies, a cathartic, barbaric yawp." New York Observer
"Wrenching, skillfully told. . . a novel not to be missed." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Deeply moving. . . . Roth achieves a masterpiece. . . a literary triumph." Playboy
"A gripping, emotionally charged novel." People
"One of Roth's most powerful novels ever . . . moving, generous and ambitious . . . a fiercely affecting work of art." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Dazzling . . . a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent novel . . . gorgeous." The Boston Globe
"At once expansive and painstakingly detailed. . . . The pages of American Pastoral crackle with the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at work." San Francisco Chronicle
"Never before has Roth written with such clear conviction. Never before has he assembled so many fully formed characters." Time
"An incandescent fiction. . . . American Pastoral scintillates with more Rothian wit, paradox, eloquent tantrums and absurd pratfalls placed at the exit of each irresistible argument that can be counted. . . . He strikes a vivid blaze." Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Roth has beaten pain and rage into a beautiful shape. American Pastoral is elaborately patterned and layered, ingeniously crafted to contain, even as it amplifies, a cathartic, barbaric yawp." New York Observer
"Wrenching, skillfully told. . . a novel not to be missed." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Deeply moving. . . . Roth achieves a masterpiece. . . a literary triumph." Playboy
"A gripping, emotionally charged novel." People