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Roth AMERICAN PASTORAL 1997 Signed Franklin

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Condition/Details: Bound in black leather with bright gilt embossing, this volume is a scarce first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning title from the series know as the "Zuckerman Novels". The novel's protagonist is Seymour "Swede" Levov, a Jewish-American businessman and former high school athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s, which is in the novel described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk". The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels". The film rights to it were later optioned by Paramount Pictures. In 2006, it was one of the runners' up in the "What is the Greatest Work of American Fiction in the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.This volume was privately printed for the Signed First Edition Society. The volume is in fine condition, and is solidly bound with clean, bright pages. The book measures approximately 6.75" x 9.5" and contains 423 pages. Please note that several lots in this auction contain Franklin Library limited editions. Please review catalogue. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50

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