American Pastoral

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Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers.

'Swede' Levov is living the American dream.

He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.

Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the Levov family is plunged into mayhem. Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels that still resonates today.

PRAISE FOR AMERICAN PASTORAL:
'Angry, grieving, witty, acute' Sunday Times
'A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years' Financial Times
'A momentous novel' Observer

©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • Marvellous… Raging and elegaic

    Guardian

  • 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

  • A momentous novel

    Observer

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