Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395860210 . First Edition with number line. Fine black boards with black spine with gilt spine title. Spine very slightly cocked. Fold in back endpaper. Fine dust jacket. "With vigourous realism, one of America's most esteemed writers takes us back to the conflicts and violent transitions of the 1960's." --from back flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998 for this novel. Ships same or next business day. ; 8.90 X 6.10 X 1.50 inches; 423 pages .

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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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Bookseller: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 60895
Title: American Pastoral
Author: Roth, Philip
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0395860210
ISBN 13: 9780395860212
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: 0395860210

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