American Pastoral
The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997
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Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997
Klappentext zu „American Pastoral “
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our 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. 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 longer-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.
Autoren-Porträt von Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip Roth
- 1998, Repr., 432 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Vintage, London
- ISBN-10: 0099771810
- ISBN-13: 9780099771814
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.1998
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „American Pastoral “
"Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered" Sunday Times "A momentous novel" Observer "Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years" Financial Times "A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel" The Times "Wonderful, rich...entirely gripping" Sunday Telegraph
Pressezitat
Marvellous... Raging and elegaic Guardian
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