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May 12, 1997 · Philip Roth. Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998)In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the ...
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Sep 27, 2024 · Image. In “American Pastoral,” the Swede proudly explains these terms to his eager young visitor, Rita — who, unbeknown to him, is not a business school student but a violent radical, sent ...
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Apr 20, 1997 · ''American Pastoral'' is a little slow -- as befits its crumbling subject, but unmistakably slow all the same -- and I must say I miss Zuckerman's manic energies. But the mixture of rage and elegy in the book is remarkable, and you have only to pause over the prose to feel how beautifully it is elaborated, to see that Mr. Roth didn't entirely abandon Henry James after all.
PS3568.O855 A77 1997. 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 ...
Three of his novels, The Ghost Writer, Operation Shylock: A Confession and Letting Go, had been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction before American Pastoral won the 1998 prize. Anyone who read Michiko Kakutani’s review of the novel in The New York Times on April 15, 1997, might have known the prize was coming. She praised the book as ...
Dec 3, 2016 · American Pastoral tells this iconic story of the sixties with a depth of wonderment and an unresolvable complexity beyond anything that the other treatments of it – in literature, drama and film – have brought to it; Roth turns it into a tragedy of Sophoclean dimensions. “I don’t know what’s happened,” bewildered Dawn moans to the Swede after Merry, straight-A student and obedient ...
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Jul 1, 2019 · American Pastoral is Philip Roth’s twentieth of twenty-seven novels. It was published in 1997 and won the Pulitzer Prize the next year. It has 520 reviews on Amazon, mostly five-star but the novel also has a few snarky one- and-two-star reviews, one of which quipped that American Pastoral was the best book of all time on glove making.
