Narrator Nathan Zuckerman reconstructs the life of Seymour 'Swede' Levov, the golden athlete of Weequahic's Jewish community who inherits his father's Newark glove factory and builds a seemingly ideal life, only to have it shattered when his stuttering teenage daughter Merry bombs the local general store and post office in protest of the Vietnam War, killing a man and vanishing underground.
Books mentioned in American Pastoral (8)
The Kid from Tomkinsville by John R. Tunis: “I came to that book and to other of Tunis's baseball books—Iron Duke, The Duke Decides, Champion's Choice, Keystone Kids, Rookie of the Year”
Iron Duke by John R. Tunis: “other of Tunis's baseball books—Iron Duke, The Duke Decides, Champion's Choice, Keystone Kids, Rookie of the Year”
The Duke Decides by John R. Tunis: “other of Tunis's baseball books—Iron Duke, The Duke Decides, Champion's Choice, Keystone Kids, Rookie of the Year”
Keystone Kids by John R. Tunis: “other of Tunis's baseball books—Iron Duke, The Duke Decides, Champion's Choice, Keystone Kids, Rookie of the Year”
Rookie of the Year by John R. Tunis: “other of Tunis's baseball books—Iron Duke, The Duke Decides, Champion's Choice, Keystone Kids, Rookie of the Year”
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “There was a copy of The Communist Manifesto.”
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy: “Ivan Ilych's life, writes Tolstoy, summarizing, right at the outset, his judgment of the presiding judge”