The release date for the English version of 'American Pastoral' by
Philip Roth is Sep 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
1998 Pulitzer Prize Recipient
Philip Roth delivers an elegy for all the promises of wealth, civic order, and family joy made throughout the twentieth century in American Pastoral, a book of undeniable excellence. Seymour 'Swede' Levov, the main character of Roth's novel, is a successful glove manufacturing inheritor from his father who grew up in a rich, post-war America. He is also a dedicated family guy and a renowned high school athlete. Nevertheless, Swede's wonderful American luck departs him one day in 1968.
Because Merry, Swede's beloved daughter, has developed into a gloomy, fervent adolescent who is capable of an absurdly brutal act of political terrorism. Merry was once a kind, quick-witted youngster. Overnight, Swede finds himself torn between the long-desired American pastoral and the native American crazy. This is Roth's masterwork—obsessively readable, driven by anger, grief, and a profound empathy for its characters.