Mr. Sammler's planet /
"Sammler, a New Yorker in his seventies, a refugee from Nazism, a thinker of complex thoughts, a touchstone around whom a heterogeneous group revolves, is not simply the protagonist but the prime mover of a many-sided novel held together by the centripetal force of his presence. The counterpoin...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking Press,
[1970]
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| Online Access: | http://dept.english.upenn.edu/%7Eafilreis/103/bellow-bio.html http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/36.html |
| Summary: | "Sammler, a New Yorker in his seventies, a refugee from Nazism, a thinker of complex thoughts, a touchstone around whom a heterogeneous group revolves, is not simply the protagonist but the prime mover of a many-sided novel held together by the centripetal force of his presence. The counterpoint of personalities, subplots, and incidents constitutes a tragi-comic commentary on twentieth-century urban life but it is Sammler's considered reflections on that life that dominate a novel which, most movingly, asks basic questions about how we live and what we live for at this chaotic point in history. Portions of the novel first appeared in the Atlantic."--Booklist Review. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally appeared in Atlantic monthly in a different form." The Cushing Library/Rare copy is signed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | 316 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0670333190 9780670333196 0670493228 9780670493227 0142437832 9780142437834 |