American Pastoral. The American Trilogy #1

American Pastoral is the 1st book in The American Trilogy Series. • Winner of the  Pulitzer Prize  in 1998 In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century\'s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth\'s protagonist is Seymour \'Swede\' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father\'s Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. 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 political 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, this is Roth\'s masterpiece.