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en-wikipedia-org-9395		American Pastoral - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2640	262	73	American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels.[1] The film rights to it were later optioned, though a film version was not made until 2016. In 2006, it was one of the runners-up to Toni Morrison's Beloved, in the "What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?" contest held by the New York Times Book Review.[2] American Pastoral was a scrupulously-researched book; Roth traveled to Gloversville, New York to learn about the glove-making industry and interviewed Yolande Fox, the winner of the 1951 Miss America pageant, while developing the character of Dawn Dwyer.[3] Roth later said, of his conversations with Fox, "She was very smart, very funny....She just opened up whole ideas for me that I couldn't have had on my own."[4]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9395.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9395.txt