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Mr. Sammler's Planet
Mr Sammler's Planet
Author: Saul Bellow
Artur Sammler has known the pleasures of England in the 1920s and 1930s; he has survived the war, the camps, a death ditch; he is a man who has lasted. Moving through the Upper West side of New YOrk City, attentive to everything and appalled by nothing, he now ponders o the meaning of life. Mr. Sammler speculates on events he sees with curiosity...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670003969
ISBN-10: 0670003964
Publication Date: 9/24/1973
Pages: 313
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Publisher: Viking
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Saul Bellow's first book since Herzog. Won the National Book Award, the main character Mr. Sammler is considered one of the most memorable characters in fiction today. "...mixes vernacular richness with mandarin eloquence, racy tough-street Jewishness with high-flown intellectual display.."
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A Holocaust survivor confronts life in postwar America... very powerful.