PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century--a compulsively readable elegy for America s promises of prosperity civic order and domestic bliss and one of Roth s most powerful novels ever (The New York Times). Here is Philip Roth s masterpiece featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov a legendary athlete at his Newark high school who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey inherit his father s glove factory and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. 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 domestic 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 American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.