Literary Book Discussion – April – American Pastoral
The book selection for April 2026 for the Literary Book Discussion is
AMERICAN PASTORAL by Philip Roth
Synopsis:
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998)
In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Seymour ‘Swede’ Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father’s Newark glove factory—comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. And then one day in 1968, Swede’s beautiful American luck deserts him.
This book discussion group meets at Hops 44 in Storrs.
Pre-registration is needed to ensure enough seats are ready for everyone.
Please call or contact the Babcock Library to Register 860-487-4420
