American Pastoral
About this book
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". American Pastoral won the **Pulitzer Prize** in 1998. Seven years later, the novel was included in **Time's List of the 100 Best Novels**, a list covering the period between 1923 and 2005. In 2006, it was one of the runners-up to Toni Morrison's Beloved, in the "**What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years**?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review. ---------- Also contained in: American Trilogy 1997-2000
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 91149 readers · 427 pages · ≈ 7 h 54 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read American Pastoral?
About ≈ 7 h 54 m — 427 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is American Pastoral?
427 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is American Pastoral?
It sits on the Historical Fiction, History, Fiction shelves.
Has American Pastoral been made into a movie or TV show?
Yes — screen adaptations include American Pastoral (2017), American Pastoral (2016).
Is American Pastoral in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote American Pastoral?
Philip Roth.