Article: American Pastoral.(Brief Article)

Roth's new novel is at once a radical thematic departure from his previous fiction while at the same time a geographic and temporal return to highly familiar terrain, postwar Jewish life in Newark, New Jersey. Long the chronicler of familial strife, sexual obsession, and neurotic eccentricity, Roth here addresses one man's doomed search for safety, protection, and ordered normalcy within the increasingly violent, turbulent backdrop of America in the 1960s.

Seymour "Swede" Levov is an uncomplicated, highly successful, quintessential American success story. A legendary high school athlete, war hero, prosperous businessman, happily married to Miss New Jersey of 1949, ...

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