Folio Fiction Discussion Group: American Pastoral
Wed, Nov 09
|Online Via Zoom


Time & Location
Nov 09, 2022, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
Online Via Zoom
About the Event
Folio's Fiction book discussion group features a list of classic fiction, curated and led by Folio Librarian Lillian Dabney.
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 postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. Not even the most private, well-intentioned citizens, it seems, gets to sidestep the sweep of history. "American Pastoral" is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall - of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. For the Swede is not allowed to stay forever blissful inside the beloved hundred-and-seventy-year-old stone farmhouse, in rural Old Rimrock, where he lives with his pretty wife - the college sweetheart who…
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