Pastoral americana / American Pastoral [9788497936101]

Overview

Calificada por la crítica norteamericana como «obra maestra», Pastoral americana es la crónica lúcida y despiadada de las ilusiones perdidas de toda una generación.

Seymour Levov, el Sueco, atleta mítico en la escuela secundaria, afectuoso padre de familia, trabajador infatigable y acomodado heredero de la fábrica de su padre, llega a la mayoría de edad en la Norteamérica próspera y triunfante de la posguerra. Solo quiere hacer las cosas bien y llevar una vida tranquila. Pero la historia es más fuerte que él y le arrastra sin remedio cuando su hija Merry participa en un acto violento contra la guerra de Vietnam. Las devastadoras consecuencias alejarán al Sueco de cualquier esperanza de felicidad o coherencia espiritual.

En esta novela, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 1998, Philip Roth nos sumerge en la década más explosiva del siglo XX: los años sesenta. Y lo hace en plena forma, con la prosa medida y la sutileza intelectual que le caracterizan a la hora de retratar las falsas promesas del sueño americano.

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a compulsively readable elegy for America’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roth's most powerful novels ever" (The New York Times).

A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.

For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of domestic terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.

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