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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author Philip Roth on a professionally tipped in page at the front of the book. First edition, first printing with a complete 10-1 number line on the copyright page. Measuring approximately 9.25" x 6.25", with 423 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor wear to the edges of the textblock. "N. F" written in pen on the rear endpaper. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in near fine condition. Minor wear to the extremities. Original $26.00 price is present on the front flap. American Pastoral is a novel concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s. The novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk". Please view…

American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel detailing the life and struggles of Seymour 'Swede' Levov, set against the backdrop of an evolving American cultural landscape.