# 11: American Pastoral
Philip Roth
'You get them wrong before you meet them,'' Zuckerman says of ''people'' in general, ''while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again.''
Zukerman has a particular image of Swede Levov, a high school legend. Roth dives into the Swedish life and we learn that all is not what it seems. His daughter Merry, grows into an angry teen-ager and blows up the post office. She then goes underground and the Swede and his wife, a former Miss New Jeresy (she would hate to be described like that), suffer. Suffer was a capital S.
What do you do if your child becomes a murderer?
The book is considered a classic, a "tour de force". I think that Roth writes very well, but I did not come under his spell. I think this might a book for a different generation, but still a pretty good read.
'You get them wrong before you meet them,'' Zuckerman says of ''people'' in general, ''while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again.''
Zukerman has a particular image of Swede Levov, a high school legend. Roth dives into the Swedish life and we learn that all is not what it seems. His daughter Merry, grows into an angry teen-ager and blows up the post office. She then goes underground and the Swede and his wife, a former Miss New Jeresy (she would hate to be described like that), suffer. Suffer was a capital S.
What do you do if your child becomes a murderer?
The book is considered a classic, a "tour de force". I think that Roth writes very well, but I did not come under his spell. I think this might a book for a different generation, but still a pretty good read.
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