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mollybwell 's review for:
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
My first Roth book. Quite the sceptic fo the American Dream. If the image of the perfect American Family is the Saturday Evening Post Thanksgiving Cover by Norman Rockwell, Roth knows how to skewer it. Freedom of want, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and freedom of speech are demonstrated at their most idealized in the Levov family of pastoral New Jersey. FDR was a hero to the family patriarch and those four freedoms bring nothing but pain for his family. This is a thoughtful look at what we envision the end-goal of the efforts of countless immigrants to become the "American" that promise envisions. Be careful what you wish for.