Mr. Sammler’s Planet

Hardcover, 313 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1970 by Viking Press.

ISBN:
978-0-670-33319-6
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OCLC Number:
51438
ASIN:
0670333190
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1990602

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A tall old man, blind in one eye, born in Cracow but with Oxonian manners and the face of a British Museum reader, strides lightly and recklessly, rolled umbrella pointing, through the pages of Saul Bellow's new novel.

Mr. Artur Sammler, who looks back on the civilized pleasures of England in the twenties and thirties, on an acquaintance with Bloomsbury and H.G. Wells, but also on the camps, the wear, a death ditch in Poland, is above all a man who has lasted. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York's upper West Side, Mr. Sammler is attentive to everything, appalled by nothing. He brings the same curiosity and disinterestedness to the activities of a black pickpocket observed in an uptown bus as to the details of his niece Angela's sex life, to his daughter's lunacy as to the extraordinary theories of one Dr. V. Govinda Lal …

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  • Holocaust survivors -- Fiction
  • City and town life -- Fiction
  • Intellectuals -- Fiction
  • Jewish men -- Fiction
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction

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