American Pastoral
Roth, Philip (, 1933-)
American Pastoral / Phillip Roth - 1st paperback ed. - New York, : Vintage Books , c1997 - 423 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
English
9780375701429
Fathers and daughters
Nineteen sixties----Fiction
Jews---United States----Fiction
Interfaith marriage----Fiction
Conflict of generations---Fiction
FIC ROT
American Pastoral / Phillip Roth - 1st paperback ed. - New York, : Vintage Books , c1997 - 423 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
English
9780375701429
Fathers and daughters
Nineteen sixties----Fiction
Jews---United States----Fiction
Interfaith marriage----Fiction
Conflict of generations---Fiction
FIC ROT
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