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American Pastoral Résumé

American Pastoral Philip Roth

Now a major motion picture based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece American Pastoral, starring Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly `Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life sustained by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede's bountiful American luck deserts him. The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society. Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.

American Pastoral Avis

"Philip Roth's American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read." -- Angea Nagle * Irish Times *
"Marvellous... Raging and elegaic" * Guardian *
"A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel" * The Times *
"Utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels" * Tatler *
"Wonderful, rich...entirely gripping" * Sunday Telegraph *
"A momentous novel" * Observer *
"Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years" * Financial Times *
"Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered" * Sunday Times *

À propos de Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for `the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004'. Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award `for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship' and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose `scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature'. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR007926031

ISBN 13

9781784706456

ISBN 10

1784706450

Titre

American Pastoral Philip Roth

Auteur

Philip Roth

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Vintage Publishing

Année de publication

2016-11-03

Nombre de pages

432

Prix

N/A

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