American Pastoral
To decipher the late 1960′s through the story of Swede Levov, whose life is cast into the fires of those years, Roth calls again upon the saturnine side of his disposition. It answers to the purpose as never before. Good-looking, prosperous Swede, who has inherited his father’s glove factory in...
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To decipher the late 1960′s through the story of Swede Levov, whose life is cast into the fires of those years, Roth calls again upon the saturnine side of his disposition. It answers to the purpose as never before. Good-looking, prosperous Swede, who has inherited his father’s glove factory in Newark, N.J., and married a former beauty queen, is not stupid, merely fulfille
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage International
Pages no: 423
Edition language: English
Series: The American Trilogy (#1)
Powieść Philipa Rotha z 1997 roku to jedna z najważniejszych pozycji w jego obszernej bibliografii.Amerykańska sielanka stanowi pierwszą (i najlepszą) część cyklu powieści o najnowszej historii Stanów Zjednoczonych – pozostałe to Wyszłam za komunistę i Ludzka skaza. Powieść jest też jedną z najbardz...
2.5 stars I really enjoy Philip Roth short stories - and that's saying something, because overall, I generally don't like short stories. So when I got this book (thank you CZH), I was very excited to read one of his books, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, no less! It took me weeks to get through the...
Review from June 2010: [My opinions aren't quite clear to me when it comes to this book. Usually I can definitively say where I stand with a text, but American Pastoral challenges that notion. The first third of the book, I felt, was uninteresting. Perhaps because I wasn't aware of the narrator an...
I won't repeat what it says on the back of the cover except for the last sentence: "Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece." Quite.As far as the plot goes, it's relatively straight forward. Man grows up, marries out of h...
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