书名：American Pastoral

作者：Philip Roth

出版社名称：Vintage

出版时间：1998

语种：英语

ISBN：9780099771814

商品尺寸：13.3 x 2.7 x 19.7 cm

包装：平装

页数：432（以实物为准）

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

Philip Roth’s masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America

‘Swede’ Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede’s bountiful American luck deserts him.

The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society. Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.

Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels and cemented Roth’s reputation as one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century.

‘Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years’ Financial Times

菲利普·罗斯（Philip Roth，1933年3月19日—2018年5月22日），美国作家。出生于美国新泽西州纽瓦克市，1954年毕业于宾夕法尼亚州巴克内尔大学。

罗斯1955年获芝加哥大学文学硕士学位后留校教英语，同时攻读博士学位，但在1957年放弃学位学习，专事写作，以小说《再见吧，哥伦布》（1959）成名（该书获1960年美国全国图书奖）。

罗斯曾多次提名诺贝尔文学奖。  并获得国家图书奖、福克纳小说奖、普利策文学奖等重要奖项。