American Pastoral (American Trilogy 1), Philip RothNow a major motion picture! Here is Philip Roth's masterpiecean 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

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Breathtaking in its originality and storytelling energy