American Pastoral Audio Book CDs Unabridged

American Pastoral
Author: Philip Roth
Reader: Ron Silver

Audie Award winner. The bomb that explodes in his backyard sweeps away one man's innocence, along with everything created by three generations of his family. Revisit the conflicts and violent transitions of the ’60s in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. First in the American trilogy. » Read More

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Publish Date: 07/01/2007
ISBN: 9781597771122

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Synopsis:

Nathan Zuckerman, now in his early 60s, agrees to write a tribute to the dead father of an old friend and, in researching the man's life, becomes intrigued with the mystery of why someone who seemed to have been blessed in every way--with a happy marriage, successful business, good health--turned into such an intensely bitter and unhappy man during the 1960s. The novel serves as Roth's assessment of the domestic casualties of the Vietnam War.

Book Awards:

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

Book Reviews:

"A touching creative act."

New York Review of Books - Elizabeth Hardwick (06/12/1997)

"What makes the book difficult and disturbing--what makes it great--is that although the outcome is foreclosed, the moral is not. This is a four-hundred-page novel that ends with a question mark."

New Yorker - Louis Menand (05/19/1997)

Author Bio:

Philip Roth is the son of an insurance manager (Milton Roth, whose life is described in his son's book PATRIMONY) from Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in Newark and earned both critical praise and popular success in 1959 for his first book, GOODBYE, COLUMBUS, a novella and collection of short stories. Since then, Roth has published a number of novels, as well as an autobiography. He has been one of the leading American novelists of the late 20th century, and many of his novels have aroused controversy for their unvarnished, often satirical depictions of Jewish Americans, neurosis, sexual obsession, and the writing life.

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Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Cultures In Conflict
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Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Success & Failure
Fiction Themes » Family & Friendship » Family Breakdown
Fiction Themes » Family & Friendship » Fathers & Daughters
Fiction Themes » Family & Friendship » Fathers & Sons
Fiction Themes » Human Qualities & Behavior » Rebelliousness
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Family Sagas & Chronicles
Fiction Themes » Peoples & Cultures » Jewish-americans
Fiction Themes » Politics » Terrorism
Fiction Themes » Society & Social Issues » Anti-semitism
Fiction Themes » Society & Social Issues » Portrait Of A Society
Fiction Themes » Stages Of Life » Mid-life Crisis
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Hippies
Fiction Themes » War & Military » Vietnam War

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