American Pastoral - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009927535X ISBN 13: 9780099275350

Verlag: Vintage, 1998

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RO60077252. AMERICAN PASTORAL. 1998. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 423 pages. Annotations en page de garde.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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"Philip Roth's American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read." -- Angea Nagle * Irish Times *

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Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant, postwar America. He has a beautiful wife - Miss New Jersey 1949 - and a lively, precocious daughter, Merry. She is the apple of his eye - until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960's and Merry grows up to be a revolutionary terrorist bent on destroying her father's paradise. With vigorous realism, one of America's most esteemed writers takes us back to the conflicts and violent transitions of the 1960's. This is a book about loving - and hating - America. It's a book about wanting to belong - and refusing to belong - to America. It sets the desire for an American pastoral - a respectable life of space, calm, order, optimism, and achievement - against the indigenous American berserk.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 009927535X
• ISBN 13: 9780099275350
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432