EAN: 9780099771814

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As the American century draws to an uneasy close Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our 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 in 1968 Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede's adored daughter Merry has grown from a loving quick-witted girl into a sullen fanatical teenager--a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable propelled by sorrow rage and a deep compassion for its characters this is Roth's masterpiece.

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