American Pastoral: American Trilogy 1 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) -- Philip Roth

<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize<br></b><br>Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece--an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. 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. <p/>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. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, <i>American Pastoral</i> gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Philip Roth<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 02/03/1998<br><b>Pages:</b> 432<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.75lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375701429<br><b>Award:</b> Pulitzer Prize - Winner<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Commonweal</i> 06/18/2004 pg. 28<br><i>Newsweek</i> 10/01/2007 pg. 80<br><i>Time</i> 02/18/2008 pg. 60<br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 06/27/2008 pg. 98<br><i>Newsweek</i> 07/13/2009 pg. 48<br><i>New