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American Pastoral
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. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".
The framing device in "American Pastoral" is a 45th high school reunion attended by
Bozrah
Bozrah, Botsra or Botzrah (; ) is a historical site and modern village in Tafilah Governorate, Jordan located between the towns of Tafilah (Tophel) and Shoubak and closer to the latter. It is identified by some researchers as the location mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. The site is adjacent to the modern town of Bouseira (), (alternatively Buseirah or Busairah).
History in Biblical Narrative.
Bozrah means "sheepfold" and was a pastoral city in Edom southeast of the Dead Sea.