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This novel ends in medias res during a hectic outdoor dinner party, where the protagonist has a spiteful conversation with his neighbor Marcia while his wife’s lover stabs his father in the eye. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which Nathan Zuckerman attempts to recount the life of Seymour “Swede” Levov, who discovers that his daughter Merry is the Old Rimrock bomber.
ANSWER: American Pastoral
[10h] Merry has this sort of condition, which Zuckerman implies to have motivated her turn to radicalism. In another novel, a character with this condition slits his own throat after losing his virginity to a sex worker named Candy.
ANSWER: speech impediment [accept stutter or stammer] (The other character is Billy Bibbit from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.)
[10e] American Pastoral is the first novel in this author’s American Trilogy, all of which are narrated by Zuckerman. This author also wrote Portnoy’s Complaint.
ANSWER: Philip Roth
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