American Pastoral - Phillip Roth

kriska

“i'm doing a year of "boy books" (books whose primary subject is masculinity or that have come to be associated with dudes)...mostly out of curiosity, to fill a few gaps in my reading. american pastoral is my favorite so far. ambitious in a way i wish more contemporary american fiction could be (i'm tired of novels about new yorkers getting cheated on, sorry). a little heavy handed at times, but ro”

Gutcheck

“It’s one of the great American novels. A sweeping epic about three generations of Americans who come out of Newark NJ. Roth at his finest.”