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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth · 1997

Literary Fiction · ranked #43 in category

The Swede — Newark's golden boy, a successful glove manufacturer — watches his perfect American life shatter when his daughter becomes a political bomber. Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses one man's ruination to examine the violence at the heart of the American Dream and the 1960s generation that detonated it.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1997 · 1990s
Author
Philip Roth
Standing
Essential Read

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