American Pastoral

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American Pastoral is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Philip Roth that explores the disintegration of the American Dream through the tragic unraveling of a seemingly ideal postwar family.

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instanceOf novel
author Philip Roth
awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
awardYear 1998
centralConflict clash between idealized suburban life and political violence
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtist Chip Kidd
explores Vietnam War era unrest
assimilation of American Jews
domestic terrorism in the United States
filmAdaptationDirector Ewan McGregor
filmAdaptationReleaseYear 2016
followedBy I Married a Communist
genre historical fiction
literary fiction
political novel
tragedy
hasAdaptation American Pastoral self-linksurface differs
surface form: American Pastoral (film)
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainTheme disintegration of the American Dream
family breakdown
identity
political radicalism
postwar American society
mediaType print
narrativeFrameCharacter Nathan Zuckerman
narrativePerspective first-person frame narrative
notableCharacter Merry Levov
surface form: Dawn Levov

Merry Levov
notableRecognition considered one of Philip Roth's major works
originalLanguage English
pageCount 423 (first edition, approximate)
partOfSeries Zuckerman novels
precededBy Sabbath's Theater
protagonist Seymour "Swede" Levov
publicationYear 1997
publisher Houghton Mifflin
setInCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
setInPeriod post–World War II era
settingCity Newark
surface form: Newark, New Jersey

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Philip Roth notableWork American Pastoral
Dakota Fanning notableWork American Pastoral
Rupert Evans notableWork American Pastoral
Rupert Evans appearedIn American Pastoral
this entity surface form: American Pastoral (2016 film)
Philip notableWork American Pastoral
subject surface form: Philip Roth
American Pastoral hasAdaptation American Pastoral self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: American Pastoral (film)
I Married a Communist precededBy American Pastoral
Zuckerman novels hasPart American Pastoral
Roth's American Trilogy hasPart American Pastoral