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In the Portnoy household nobody played sports--bodies existed only to generate suffering--and there was only one thing that really went well.
Alexander Portnoy, after he outgrows his autoerotic obsession, works for the liberal John Lindsay administration in New York City and does his best to demonstrate his concern for the poor and the oppressed.
Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?
It is about "the same irony and the same agony" as Portnoy's Complaint --the excesses of the 1960s--but American Pastoral is "darker, difficult, more mature."
Titles that reveal (without giving away) the are of the plot are typified, quite randomly, by: Witness for the Prosecution, Don't Look Now, Beware of Pity, Deliverance, Portnoy's Complaint, Crime \?\ Punishment, The Informer, A Doll's House, Hunger, Pygmalion, The Ransom of Red Chief, Before the Fact ,— once started, the list is endless.