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American Pastoral

Author
Philip Roth
Narrator
Malcolm Hillgartner
Length
16 hours 6 minutes
Publisher
Vintage Digital; 2023
Catalogue Number
17962
Synopsis

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

Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the Levov family is plunged into mayhem. Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels that still resonates today.