Mr Sammler's Planet - Softcover

Saul-bellow

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140073175 ISBN 13: 9780140073171

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

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To escape the European horror, Mr Sammler was obliged to crawl from his own grave, and to kill. He is assured by Dr Lal that a perfect society is attainable, on the moon. Meanwhile on Mr Sammler's planet, so recognizably our own, there seems little chance of attaining it.

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"Bellow's oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary."

"Bellow's oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." (Bryan Appleyard, "Sunday Times," London)

Bellows oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. (Bryan Appleyard, "Sunday Times," London)

aBellowas oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary.a (Bryan Appleyard, "Sunday Times," London)

Bellow s oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. (Bryan Appleyard, "Sunday Times", London)

?Bellow's oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary.? (Bryan Appleyard, "Sunday Times", London)

The most important writer in English in the second half of the twentieth century Bellow s oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times (London)"

"The most important writer in English in the second half of the twentieth century...Bellow's oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." -Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times (London)

About the Author:

Saul Bellow was born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Marines. His titles include The Adventures of Augie March, which won the American National Book Award for fiction in 1954, Humboldt's Gift (1975), which won the Pulitzer Prize and, most recently, Collected Stories (2001).

Stanley Crouch's books include Notes of a Hanging Judge, The All-American Skin Game (Nominated for the American National Book Award), and a novel, Don't the Moon Look Lonesome. He has received the Whiting Writer's Award and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award.

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