American pastoral

Tapa dura, 423 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 8 de Enero de 1998 por Penguin Books Ltd..

ISBN:
978-0-395-86021-2
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Número OCLC:
906729846
Goodreads:
952579

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American Pastoral takes a look at the 1960's in America from the perspective of Philip Roth's alter-ego main character, Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman meets the brother of Seymour "Swede" Levov, recenly deceased, at a high school reunion. The brother shares the Swede's sad tale of the ruin of his conventional upper middle class life by the turmoil of the sixties.

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a very unreliable narrator

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A story within a story. I liked how the frame story flows seamlessly into the actual narrative, which in turn is a completely fictionalized biography by the narrator about an acquaintance about whom he actually knows very little, except that his daughter (presumably) committed a terrorist attack. As if the author is taking a double distance, a very unreliable narrator, very postmodern. Along the way, you also learn all about how leather gloves are made. A great book.

Temas

  • United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Fiction