Roth, Philip  (, 1933-) <br/><br/>
American Pastoral 
/ Phillip Roth 
 - 1st paperback ed. 
 - New York,  : Vintage Books  , c1997 
 - 423 p.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780375701429 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fathers and daughters<br/>Nineteen sixties----Fiction<br/>Jews---United States----Fiction<br/>Interfaith marriage----Fiction<br/>Conflict of generations---Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC ROT