{"product_id":"american-pastoral-a-novel","title":"American Pastoral: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the five best novels I have ever read, maybe the best. . . . It ranks with the greatest of American fiction.\" —Stephen King, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An incandescent fiction. . . . Scintillates with more Rothian wit, paradox, eloquent tantrums, and absurd pitfalls than can be counted.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The greatest of great American novels.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Widely considered to be Roth's masterwork.\"—\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Pastoral is 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\u003cbr\u003ein 1968, Swede’s beautiful American luck deserts him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Swede’s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandish act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the American berserk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51734169583922,"sku":"9780063499300","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780063499300.jpg?v=1788761164","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/american-pastoral-a-novel","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}