American Pastoral
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780676538694 (067653869X)
Pages no: 543
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...
on mp33* The Human Stain1* American Pastoral2* Everymanabandoned at 30% mark.Next.