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Book

American pastoral

Call Number

  • FICTION ROTH (CEN, OSH)

Edition

FIrst Vintage International edition.

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, 1998.

Physical Description

423 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

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 indigenous American berserk. Swede Levov is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter Merry has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter.

Notes

"Originally published in hard cover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, in 1997"--Title page verso.

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