damoffman 's review for:

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

3.0

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Roth's prose was good enough to sustain me through the bits of this that were tragically boring or massively uncomfortable. There is a certain amount of grim satisfaction reading this through the lens of an unreliable narrator chronicling the downfall of the false image of wholesome 50's America, though I don't think that was exactly the authorial intent. Hate the regular infantilization of women and of any politics which dare to be left of LBJ. Really would prefer to give 2.5 stars but for me personally it leans more towards a 3 than a straight 2.