American Pastoral

Paperback, 423 pages

English language

Published March 17, 2016 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-1-78470-645-6
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OCLC Number:
958098110

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'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life sustained by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.

Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede's bountiful American luck deserts him.

The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society.

Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.

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¿Qué puede llevar a una niña de bien, de una familia trabajadora, con un padre exitoso, una mamá hermosa, a convertirse en terrorista?

Roth hace un estudio de personaje de cada uno: Swede, Merry, Dawn. Esto es, para mi, lo que hace valioso el libro. Las descripciones de las discusiones familiares y entre los amigos seguramente son las que llegaran a la película, que no podrá capturar los personajes.

Por otra parte, es un libro lento. Las primeras 100 páginas, la descripción de la reunión, la descripción del escritor, para mi son otra novela, una que no me interesó mucho.

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Subjects

  • Social conditions
  • Terrorism
  • Life change events
  • Families
  • Fiction

Places

  • United States