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PHILIP ROTH - GEBRAUCHT AMERICAN PASTORAL - PRE...

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.

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