American Pastoral

Type

Book

Authors

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10

0395860210

ISBN 13

9780395860212

Tags

Literary, United States, Fathers and daughters, Bombings, Jewish businesspeople, New Jersey, Social conditions, Manners and customs, Families

Abstract

An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: History
Pastoral fiction
Historical fiction
Romans (teksten)
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Philip Roth
ISBN: 0395860210 9780395860212
OCLC Number: 906729846
Awards: Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 1997
Description: 423 p. ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Philip Roth.

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