- Published: 1 October 2019
- ISBN: 9781784875541
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $29.99
American Pastoral

















- Published: 1 October 2019
- ISBN: 9781784875541
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $29.99
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read.
Angea Nagle, Irish Times
Marvellous... Raging and elegaic
Guardian
A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel
The Times
Utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels
Tatler
Wonderful, rich...entirely gripping
Sunday Telegraph
A momentous novel
Observer
Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years
Financial Times
Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered
Sunday Times
[American Pastoral] is gorgeously written with passages of breathtaking beauty filled with wisdom and pathos
Sarfraz Manzoor, Week
[American Pastoral] is gorgeously written with passages of breathtaking beauty filled with wisdom and pathos
Sarfraz Manzoor, Waitrose Weekend