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        American Pastoral


        setting

        New Jersey

        time

        1995

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1997

        page count

        423

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Nathan Zuckerman, Jerry Levov, Seymour "Swede" Levov

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        The Swede. During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete. The name was magical; so was the anomalous face.