AMERICAN PASTORAL

In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promise s of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a d evoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumpha nt post-war America. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has g rown fro...[Read more]