{"product_id":"american-pastoral-book-philip-roth-9780375701429","title":"American Pastoral","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Time\u003c\/i\u003es).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49516618219793,"sku":"GOR001381300","price":5.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49526404481297,"sku":"CIN0375701427G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595265220881,"sku":"GOR001888032","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643081400593,"sku":"GOR003211090","price":4.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49774379368721,"sku":"CIN0375701427A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50129963614481,"sku":"CIN0375701427VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":50522759135505,"sku":"CIN0375701427LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001883918609,"sku":"NIN9780375701429","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375701427.jpg?v=1751432548","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/american-pastoral-book-philip-roth-9780375701429","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}