American pastoral

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American pastoral

Title:

American pastoral

Author:

Roth, Philip, author.

Hillgartner, Malcolm, narrator.

Series:

American trilogy ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Seymour 'Swede' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory—comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For 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, this is Roth's masterpiece. -- Amazon.

General Note:

Compact discs.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Physical Description:

13 audio discs (16 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Pastoral fiction.

Historical fiction.

Subject Term:

Jewish businesspeople -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Bombings -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Fiction.

New Jersey -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Hillgartner, Malcolm,

Publisher:

Blackstone Publishing,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9798212382427

9798212382434

Publication Information:

[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Publishing, [2023]

Call Number:

CDB ROTH

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

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Summary

Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of 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.

For 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 domestic terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively listenable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.

Author Notes

Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He attended Rutgers University for one year before transferring to Bucknell University where he completed a B.A. in English with highest honors in 1954. He received an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1955.

His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, received the National Book Award in 1960. His other books include Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Ghostwriter, Zuckerman Unbound, I Married a Communist, The Plot Against America, The Facts, The Anatomy Lesson, Exit Ghost, Deception, Nemesis, Everyman, Indignation, and The Humbling. He won the National Book Critic Circle Awards in 1987 for his novel The Counterlife and in 1992 for his memoir Patrimony: A True Story. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for Operation Shylock: A Confession and in 2001 for The Human Stain, the National Book Award in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for American Pastoral. He stopped writing in 2010. He died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85.

(Bowker Author Biography)