American Pastoral

American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".

American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Seven years later, the novel was included in Time's List of …

American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Seven years later, the novel was included in Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, a list covering the period between 1923 and 2005. In 2006, it was one of the runners-up to Toni Morrison's Beloved, in the "What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.

Also contained in: American Trilogy 1997-2000

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Paranoid Fish hat American Pastoral von Philip Roth besprochen

a very unreliable narrator

5 Sterne

A story within a story. I liked how the frame story flows seamlessly into the actual narrative, which in turn is a completely fictionalized biography by the narrator about an acquaintance about whom he actually knows very little, except that his daughter (presumably) committed a terrorist attack. As if the author is taking a double distance, a very unreliable narrator, very postmodern. Along the way, you also learn all about how leather gloves are made. A great book.

Paranoid Fish hat American Pastoral von Philip Roth besprochen

a very unreliable narrator

5 Sterne

schneuerwerk hat American Pastoral von Philip Roth besprochen

4 Sterne

Unglaublich gut geschrieben mit vorsichtiger Sorgfalt nie zu vorhersehbar zu sein, jedoch immer das Gefühl der Echtheit zu bewahren.