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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American Pastoral canonical | 7 |
| American Pastoral (2016 film) | 1 |
| American Pastoral (film) | 1 |
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| 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
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surface form:
United States
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| 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
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surface form:
American Pastoral (film)
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| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
disintegration of the American Dream
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family breakdown ⓘ identity ⓘ political radicalism ⓘ postwar American society ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFrameCharacter | Nathan Zuckerman ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person frame narrative ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Merry Levov
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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
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surface form:
United States
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| setInPeriod | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| settingCity |
Newark
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surface form:
Newark, New Jersey
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Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American Pastoral (2016 film)
subject surface form:
Philip Roth
this entity surface form:
American Pastoral (film)