American Pastoral is the 1st book in The American Trilogy Series.
Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth\'s masterpiece..
And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.
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 then one day in 1968, Swede\'s beautiful American luck deserts him.
Roth\'s protagonist is Seymour \'Swede\' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father\'s Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. &bull
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 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.
American Pastoral is the 1st book in The American Trilogy Series