American Pastoral
by Roth, Philip
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Very Good. About Very Good. Wraps toned at the edges and spine, rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, a few pages with creased corners, clean otherwise. Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the coming of age of Seymour Levov in post-war America.
Synopsis
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a Jewish-American businessman and former high school athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk". The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels".
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Details
- Seller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 6861
- Title
- American Pastoral
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advance Reading Copy
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- American Literature, Modern Literature, 20th Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Jewish Literature, Books to Film
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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