AMERICAN PASTORAL - Philip Roth
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American Pastoral is a novel by American author Philip Roth, published in 1997. The story is concerned with the life of Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. The novel is told via a framing device. Narrator Nathan Zuckerman learns of Seymour's decline and early death from prostate cancer from Seymour's brother Jerry. Zuckerman begins a recreation of Seymour's life based on Jerry's revelations, newspaper clippings, and his own impressions. Seymour had been happy running his father's glove factory and married to former beauty queen Dawn Dwyer. But the Vietnam War, racial unrest, and his daughter's radicalisation led to Seymour's family life unravelling completely. In 2006, American Pastoral was a runner-up in the "What Is the Greatest Work of American Fiction in the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.
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