{"product_id":"american-pastoral-by-philip-roth","title":"American Pastoral by Philip Roth","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere is Philip Roth's masterpiece—an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Roth's most powerful novels ever...moving, generous and ambitious...a fiercely affecting work of art.\" —Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Dazzling...a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent novel...gorgeous.\" —\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"At once expansive and painstakingly detailed.... The pages of American Pastoral crackle with the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at work.\" —\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: VIntage\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-0375701429\u003cbr\u003ePages: 423\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Page \u0026 Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40539339686096,"sku":"","price":898.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8000\/5328\/products\/71--XcbyBEL.jpg?v=1638611746","url":"https:\/\/pageandturner.ph\/products\/american-pastoral-by-philip-roth","provider":"Page \u0026 Turner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}