Book · 1997 · Fiction

American Pastoral

Name: American Pastoral
Author: Philip Roth

Vintage International (Penguin Random House) · 423 pages

★ 7.7 editorial score

Seymour Levov has a glove factory, a beauty queen wife, and the whole postwar American promise, until his stuttering daughter plants a bomb in 1968. Roth takes a decent man apart.

Medium

Novel

Subject

The 60s Social unrest Protest Social change

Setting

Newark

Time

1997Depicts 20th century

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