{"product_id":"american-pastoral-9780063499300","title":"American Pastoral","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the five best novels I have ever read, maybe the best. . . . It ranks with the greatest of American fiction.\" --Stephen King, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An incandescent fiction. . . . Scintillates with more Rothian wit, paradox, eloquent tantrums, and absurd pitfalls than can be counted.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The greatest of great American novels.\" --Taffy Brodesser-Akner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Widely considered to be Roth's masterwork.\"--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Pastoral is an 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\u003cbr\u003ein 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager--a teenager capable of an outlandish act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the American berserk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.29w x 1.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063499300","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48016460185737,"sku":"9780063499300","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_78695d77-8c26-49be-81cc-2ae4995b0a2c.jpg?v=1787687847","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/american-pastoral-9780063499300","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}