AMERICAN PASTORAL

An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious Amer ican berserk. Never before has Roth written with clear conviction.--Time. An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraord inary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out...[Read more]