Vintage Books USA</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>Now a major motion picture!</b><br><br>Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece?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 in 1968?? Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.<br><br>For Swede's adored daughter?? Merry"wn 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 longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable?? propelled by sorrow?? rage?? and a deep compassion for its characters???<i>American Pastoral</i>?gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br