{"product_id":"9781598531039","title":"The American Trilogy, 1997-2000: American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain","description":"\u003cp\u003eGathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eAmerican Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquility of his domestic life and into the turbulent 1960s by his cherished daughter, an antiwar terrorist. \u003ci\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), a story of betrayal set in America's anti-Communist 1940s, recounts the rise and fall of radio star Ira Ringold, exposed by his wife as \"an American taking his orders from Moscow.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) is set in 1998, when America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president; in a small New England college town an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish his most virulent accuser.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Roth is the only living novelist whose works are being collected in the Library of America series. The nine-volume edition will be completed in 2013, for Roth's 80th birthday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050207625456,"sku":"9781598531039","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598531039_p0.jpg?v=1763815053","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598531039","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}