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Philip Roth’s nationally bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral heads to the silver screen. The film releases on October 21st and stars Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, David Strathairn, and Dakota Fanning. As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father’s glove factory, and move into…