(Fiction, 432 pp. 1997)
The first in Roth’s trilogy of novels exploring the life of American Jews of his generation, American Pastoral paints a masterful portrait of the perfectly assimilated Seymour “the Swede” Levov, whose perfectly constructed world falls apart when his daughter gets involved in radical politics.
- Discussion questions
- Review by Michael Wood, New York Times, April 20, 1997
- Review: Kirkus
- Review by Paul Berman, Slate, May 21, 1997
- Review: The Economist, May 22, 1997
- Review by James W. Tuttleton, New Criterion, May 1997
- Benjamin Taylor interviewsPhilip Roth (28 min.)
