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Mr. Sammler's planet / Saul Bellow.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellow, Saul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
- Holocaust survivors.
- City and town life--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Intellectuals--Fiction.
- Intellectuals.
- Jewish men--Fiction.
- Jewish men.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 313 p. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, c1970.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Originally appeared in Atlantic monthly in a different form."
- ISBN:
- 0670333190
- 9780670333196
- OCLC:
- 51438
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