Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.
‘A tragedy of classical proportions - a magnificent novel’ The Times
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century-a compulsively readable elegy for America's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roth's most powerful novels ever" (The New York Times).A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century-a compulsively readable elegy for America's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roth's most powerful novels ever" (The New York Times).A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 YearsHere is Philip Roth's masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of 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 domestic terrorism.
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American Pastoral was written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
American Pastoral has 423 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage International series