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American Pastoral

Written by: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
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Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers.

'Swede' Levov is living the American dream.

He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.

Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the Levov family is plunged into mayhem. Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels that still resonates today.

PRAISE FOR AMERICAN PASTORAL:
'Angry, grieving, witty, acute' Sunday Times
'A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years' Financial Times
'A momentous novel' Observer

©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio

 20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Political
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Critic Reviews

Marvellous... Raging and elegaic
Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years
A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel
Wonderful, rich...entirely gripping
A momentous novel
Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered
Utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels
[American Pastoral’s] mix of sly humour and incendiary passages that expose the dark heart of the American dream
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