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American pastoral [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]

An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.

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  • "Gab bags"@en
  • "American Pastoral"
  • "Amerikaniko eidyllio"
  • "American pastoral"
  • "American pastoral"@pl
  • "American pastoral"@it

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  • "An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk."
  • "An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk."@en
  • "Seymour Levov è alto, biondo e atletico. Malgrado sia di origine ebraica al liceo lo chiamano "lo Svedese". Negli anni '50 sposa miss New Jersey, avviandosi ad una vita di lavoro nella fabbrica del padre. Nella sua splendida villa cresce Merry, la figlia cagionevole e balbuziente. Finché arriva il giorno in cui le contraddizioni del paese raggiungono la soglia del suo rifugio, devastandola. La guerra del Vietnam è al culmine. Merry sta terminando la scuola e ha l'obiettivo di "portare la guerra in casa". Letteralmente."
  • "Epos over een Amerikaanse familie die in de jaren zestig verdwaasd achterblijft wanneer de zestienjarige dochter een terroriste blijkt te zijn."
  • "Ben shu xu shu le cong da xiao tiao dao 20 shi ji mo li wo fu yi jia ji ju dai biao xing de zao yu. sai mo mi, li wo fu de mei guo meng cheng wei rang ta wu fa rong ren you wu fa tao li de e meng."
  • "The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter."
  • "Roth succeeds in illuminating the American dream through the vision of those who love it and those who hate it. The novel examines the contrast between a successful businessman and his revolutionary terrorist daughter."
  • "The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater."@en
  • "The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater."
  • "A former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory, Seymour "Swede" Levov finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father's world."
  • "Après trente-six ans, Zuckerman l'écrivain retrouve Seymour Levov dit "le Suédois", l'athlète fétiche de son lycée de Newark. Toujours aussi splendide, Levov l'invincible, le généreux, l'idole des années de guerre, le petit-fils d'émigrés juifs devenu un Américain plus vrai que nature ..."
  • "Award Winner-Pulitzer Prize Seymour Levov-a legendary high school athlete a devoted family man- comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960's."
  • "An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk."
  • "An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk."@en

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  • "Historical fiction"@es
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Novela estadounidense"@es
  • "Novela estadounidense"
  • "Novela estadounidense"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable e-Books"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Audiobooks Audiovisual materials"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Novela pastoril"@es
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Novela histórica"@es
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "History"@es
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"
  • "Pastoral fiction"@es
  • "Pastoral fiction"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"
  • "Novela estadounidense - Siglo XX"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"

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  • "Pastoral americana"@ca
  • "Pastoral americana"
  • "Pastoral americana"@es
  • "Amerikkalainen pastoraali"@fi
  • "Meiguo mu ge"
  • "Pastorale américaine : roman"
  • "American pastoral [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]"@en
  • "Pastorale américaine"
  • "Amerikansk pastorale : roman"@da
  • "Amerikanisches Idyll"
  • "Amerikaniko eidylio"
  • "פסטורלה אמריקנית"
  • "Pasṭoralah Ameriḳanit"
  • "Amerykańska sielanka"@pl
  • "Amerykańska sielanka"
  • "Mei guo mu ge"
  • "Amerikaanse pastorale : roman"
  • "Amerikanskai︠a︡ pastoralʹ : roman"
  • "Pastorale americana"
  • "Pastorale americana"@it
  • "Pastorale americaine"
  • "Americká idyla"
  • "美国牧歌 = American pastoral"
  • "American Pastoral"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Mei guo mu ge = American pastoral"
  • "American pastoral"@en
  • "American pastoral"
  • "Американская пастораль : роман"
  • "美国牧歌"
  • "Amerikanisches Idyll Roman"
  • "Amerikaanse pastorale"
  • "美國牧歌"

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