SOURCE: "The Irony and the Ecstasy," in New Yorker, Vol. LXXIII, No. 12, May 19, 1997, pp. 88, 90-4.
[In the following essay, Menand analyzes many of the themes in American Pastoral and compares it briefly to several other works by Roth.]
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