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AMERICAN PASTORAL
by Roth, Philip
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0224050001
- ISBN 13
- 9780224050005
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, (1997).. (1997).. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a color illustrated black dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with minor creases to the edges. [viii] & 423 pages. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition, first impression with the complete number line on the copyright page.<p>Philip Roth's "American Pastoral" described as a manifestation of the "indiginous American berserk" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Included in Time's "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", it was selected as one of the runners-up in the New York Times Book Review contest "What is the Greatest Work of American Fiction in the Last 25 Years" in 2006.
Synopsis
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a Jewish-American businessman and former high school 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, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk". The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels".
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33167
- Title
- AMERICAN PASTORAL
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224050001
- ISBN 13
- 9780224050005
- Publisher
- London: Jonathan Cape, (1997).
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1997).
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FIRST EDITION; AMERICAN PASTORAL; PHILIP ROTH; 1ST EDITION; FIRST IMPRESSION; PULITZER PRIZE; 1ST IMPRESSION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; NOVEL; 20TH CENTURY; FICTION.
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Fine
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- Soiled
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- New
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- Copyright page
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- Gilt
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