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American Pastoral

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In Philip Roth
For his next work, American Pastoral (1997; film 2016), Roth was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. The novel, about a middle-class couple whose daughter becomes a terrorist, is the first entry in the American Trilogy series, all three books of which are narrated by Zuckerman. The later installments are I…
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…Trilogy (the other two being American Pastoral [1997] and I Married a Communist [1998]), and it earned the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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