American Pastoral - Philip Roth

Yes, his Pulitizer Prize winning novel, but I don't know. The novel does right by following a realism track. Roth never did well with plot. The novel is also ambitious like his best works, but it is also redudant. The first forty pages is mere introduction, but after that the story is repetitve with the protaganist repeating the extent of his anxiety over and over again. One situation leads to new things, but the novel is focused on capturing the psyche of this disturbed man that it doesn't know when enough is enough. Roth writes his most radical book here, but the novel lacks the larger perspective in his better 90s works. I actually preferred I Married A Communist to this one. It has a similar subject and handles the outside perspective of the character better. That's also the only novel in that decade by Roth not to win a major award.