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American Pastoral
Philip Roth. Vintage Books: 1998 (paperback - reissue). ISBN: 0375701427. 423 pages.
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This 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner tells the life story of the Swede, a celebrated high
school athlete idolized by peers and parents alike. His beauty, power, and connections propel him through adulthood,
winning him all the rewards of the American Dream--he marries a former Miss New Jersey, moves into a lovely old stone
farmhouse, and inherits his father's glove business. Roth's exploration of the events that turn the Swede's American
Dream into a nightmare illuminate the radical social and ideological shifts that redefined America in the second half of
the twentieth century. So much to say about the changing nature of what it means to be an American success or failure, and
so hard to put this book down.
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