American Pastoral -

Philip Roth

Vintage

1997

423 páginas

14h 6m

ISBN-13: 9780375701429

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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Marquei como lendo "American Pastoral", Plhilip Roth
Mergulho na literatura densa do escritor americano Philip Roth.
Um retrato fiel da grande colcha de retalhos de que é constituída a sociedade americana. Os problemas enfrentados por imigrantes, sobretudo os judeus, para se adaptar à cultura e os valores completamente diferentes dos seus. Paradoxalmente, vive-se numa constante tentativa de vivenciar, como todo nativo, a experiência do "American Dream" O sonho Americano. Acima de tudo, uma proposta de revisão do próprio "sonho Americano".