Finished: 8/1/20
Year: 1997
Pages: 423
Genre: Literature
Grade: C
Reason for reading: 1001 books to read before you die, TBR pile
Blurb (from back cover): "As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.
"For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager-a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the long-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk."
Opinion: My first reaction is eh. An average read. Couldn't get into it-and felt that Swede's reaction to his daughter was over the top in some aspects.
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