The Economist (US), May 24th, 1997
AMERICAN PASTORAL. By Philip Roth. Houghton and Mifflin; 432 pages; $26. Cape; K15.99 (to be published in June)
THE American dream just about survives in Philip Roth's latest-and particularly fine-novel. But it takes a terrible licking. The story is set mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, when old values, as they will, come under strain. Seymour "Swede" Levov appears a quintessential American success: grandson of Jewish immigrants, star high-school athlete and prosperous owner of the family glove factory in Newark, civic-minded in his public life, kind and tolerant in private. He lives well in h...
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