Wednesday, October 28, 2015

AMERICAN PASTORAL by Philip Roth

Finished Tu 10/27/15

Loved it from page one....FIVE STARS... Great saga of a family and a really innovative storyline. You don't even know what the novel is really about until about forty pages in.

Daughter and father relationship against the backdrop of the turbulent sixties.

Rather a depressing ending. Does Roth feel that all is doomed? No real option to prevent the deterioration of all things.

There is a movie in the works (Begun Sept. 2015)

Page 402 uses the words 'American Pastoral'. A reference to Thanksgiving, a day in which all differences, religious and otherwise, are to be put aside.

wikipedia page-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pastoral

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