American Pastoral by Philip Roth - a review

3rd March 2008 with 1 Comment

A taster: this section comes at a meeting between the narrator and the Swede, a former ballplayer and one of his boyhood heroes:
I was impressed as the meal wore on, by how assured he seemed of everything commonplace he said, and how everything he said was suffused by his good nature. I kept waiting for [...]

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