V American Pastoral, Philip Roth dáva nám nové novely unqualified greatness, ktorý je elegy pre všetky dvadsať centier, premiestňovanie prosperity, civica order, a domáce bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, prosperous inheritor jeho otec Newark glove factory - Comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war Ame. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. Pre Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager - a teenager capable of outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede je zatvorený z dlhej-americkej pastoral a do indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, prepelled by sorrow, rage, a hlboký kompasion pre jeho charaktery, tento je Roth's masterpiece.In 1997 Philip Roth bude Pulitzer Prize pre American Pastoral. V roku 1998 bol odovzdaný Národný Medal Arts na White House, av roku 2002 bol vysokú pozíciu American Academy of Arts and Letters, Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded John Dos Passos, William Faulkner a Saul Bellow, okrem iných . He has twice won the National Book Award a National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award tri časy. V roku 2005 Plot Against America bol prijatý spoločnosťou American Historians' Prize pre 'outstanding historické novely na americkej téme na 2003-2004'. of work . . . tvorby originality a consummate ciest' a v roku 2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award pre sledovanie v americkej Fiction, dáva to na píšťalka, ktorý je stupňom spotreby nad a sustained career . . . places him or her v highest rank of American literature'. V roku 2011 Roth bude International Man Booker Prize.Roth je only living American writer to má svoju prácu publikované v kompresnom, definitívnej verzii podľa Library of America.