American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g…
Want to Read $ 16.49"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
If you liked the classics plot in American Pastoral by Philip Roth , here is a list of 9 books like this:
1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literature
- american
- americana
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)
By: John Updike
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-bas… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in John Updike's Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4) book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- novels
4. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Don DeLillo's Underworld book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
5. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
6. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
7. Freedom
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.78
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Similar categories in Emmanuel Carrère's Limonov book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literature
9. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Don DeLillo's Libra book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
10. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
By: John Updike
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has com… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in John Updike's Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3) book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
11. Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
By: John Updike
4.14
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run,John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harr… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in John Updike's Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2) book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
12. Herzog
By: Philip Roth , Saul Bellow
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Philip Roth's Herzog book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
13. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in John Williams's Stoner book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
14. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Don DeLillo's White Noise book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
15. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
Want to Read $ 16.49Similar categories in Philip Roth's American Pastoral book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- americana
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
16. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
17. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in John Updike's Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1) book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
18. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Michael Bible's L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- american
- americana
- the united states of america
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
19. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
20. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
By: Steven Millhauser
3.56
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In th… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Steven Millhauser's Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer book and Philip Roth's American Pastoral
- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and street-car ads, of the city pressing its way no…"-Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
