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American Pastoral
1997 novel by Philip Roth
For the 2016 film adaptation, see American Pastoral (film).
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey.
Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".
It is the first in Roth's American Trilogy, followed by I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000).
The framing device in American Pastoral is a 45th high school reunion attended by frequent Roth alter egoNathan Zuckerman, who is the narrator.
At the reunion, in 1995, Zuckerman meets former classmate Jerry Levov who describes to him the tragic derailment of the life of his recently deceased older brother, S