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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Reception
6:30 pm Discussion
7:15 pm -9:00 pm
Miami Dade College
Kendall Campus, Room K-413
11011 SW 104th St. Miami, FL
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Reception
6:30
pm - 7:15 pm with hors d'oeuvres, dramatic
readings, music by Professor Jay Brown,
and art installation by Alberto Meza, Florida
Professor of the Year, 2004
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Discussion
Join us 7:15 pm
- 9:00 pm
for a lecture followed by a discussion with Professor Cary Ser,
English Department, Miami Dade College
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A
New York Times Editor’s Choice
Dazzling…a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent
novel…gorgeous.” -Boston Globe |
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“At
once expansive and painstakingly detailed… The
pages of American Pastoral crackle with
the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at
work.” –San Francisco Chronicle
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As
the American century draws to an uneasy close,
Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified
greatness that is an 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.
An overnight Swede is wrenched out of the
longed-for American pastoral and into the
indigenous American berserk. Compulsively
readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep
compassion for its characters, this is Roth’s
masterpiece.
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