Philip Roth
American Pastoral

American Pastoral

A forty-fifth high school reunion is the inciting incident for what is widely regarded as Roth’s masterpiece. Nathan Zuckerman runs into Jerry Levov. Nathan looked up to Jerry’s brother and star athlete Seymour aka Swede. Swede was the embodiment of the American Dream until his luck deserts him and his daughter Merry engages in an act of political terrorism and goes underground.

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