Book description
Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, grows up in
the booming post-war 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. His teenage daughter has become capable of an
outlandishly savage act of political terrorism, wrenching Swede out of
the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American
beserk. In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for
American Pastoral
. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and
in 2002 received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos
Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice
won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National
Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005, Philip Roth will become the third
living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive,
definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of the eight
volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.
