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Now a major motion picture based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece American Pastoral, starring Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly
‘Swede’ Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life sustained by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.
Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede’s bountiful American luck deserts him.
The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society.
Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.
‘Swede’ Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life sustained by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.
Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede’s bountiful American luck deserts him.
The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society.
Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.
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"Philip Roth’s American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read." (Angea Nagle Irish Times)
"Marvellous... Raging and elegaic" (Guardian)
"A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel" (The Times)
"Utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels" (Tatler)
"Wonderful, rich...entirely gripping" (Sunday Telegraph)
"A momentous novel" (Observer)
"Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years" (Financial Times)
"Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered" (Sunday Times)
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"Marvellous... Raging and elegaic" (Guardian)
"A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel" (The Times)
"Utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels" (Tatler)
"Wonderful, rich...entirely gripping" (Sunday Telegraph)
"A momentous novel" (Observer)
"Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years" (Financial Times)
"Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered" (Sunday Times)
Now a major motion picture based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece American Pastoral, starring Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly
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