American Pastoral by Philip Roth

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".

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The 210th greatest fiction book of all time

This book is on the following lists:

1. - 5th on What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? (New York Times)
2. - 5th on The New Classics - 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 (Entertainment Weekly)
3. - 7th on D. G. Myers’ 50 Greatest English Language Novels (D. G. Myers)
4. - 8th on The Ideal Library (Book)
5. - 13th on El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors (El Pais)
6. - 75th on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
7. - 99th on The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer)
8. - 113th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
9. - The Dream of the Great American Novel (Book)
10. - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Pulitzer Prize)
11. - The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years (Parade Magazine)
12. - The 80 Books Every Man Should Read (Esquire)
13. - 50 Books to (Re-)Read at 50 (nextavenue)
14. - From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)
15. - "Best Foreign Work of Fiction" (Transfuge)
16. - TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (TIME Magazine)

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	American Pastoral	Audio CD	1962823	$765.32	$67.69	2006
	Pastoral Americana (Contemporanea (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	1327944	$6.25	$5.00	2013
	The Human Stain: A Novel	Hardcover	2475765	$9.42	$1.52	2000
	American Pastoral	Hardcover	3425905	$85.40	$0.98
	By Philip Roth American Pastoral (First Edition)	Hardcover	189462	$77.91	$4.03	1997
	Reading Myself and Others	Paperback	504669	$11.14	$6.88	2001
	The Dying Animal	Paperback	672138	$9.91	$1.90	2002
	Our Gang	Paperback	1267720	$8.00	$2.73	2001
	Philip Roth: The American Trilogy (Library of America)	Hardcover	260879	$23.62	$12.73	2011
	Philip Roth: The American Trilogy (Library of America)	Hardcover	1639426	$37.38	$25.92	2011
	Pastoral americana / American Pastoral (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	2565538	$18.20	$24.43	2010
	American Pastoral	Hardcover	9018180		$24.99
	American Pastoral	Audible Audiobook	77952	$18.35		2021
	Pastoral americana [American Pastoral]	Audible Audiobook	67495	$13.22		2020
	American Pastoral	Hardcover	300546	$21.68	$2.13	1997
	Pastoral americana (Spanish Edition)	Kindle Edition	751053	$6.99		2011
	AMERICAN PASTORAL	Paperback	1100688	$13.58	$1.36	1998
	American Pastoral (American Trilogy Book 1)	Kindle Edition	90387	$15.99		2013
	American Pastoral: American Trilogy (1) (Vintage International)	Paperback	48498	$7.40	$1.25	1998
	The Human Stain	Hardcover	3672352	$74.99	$0.99