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Mr. Sammler's Planet
- Author
- Saul Bellow
- Narrator
- George Guidall
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 25 June 2019
- Run Time
- 10 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York’s Upper West Side, Mr. Sammler is attentive to everything, and appalled by nothing. He brings the same dispassionate curiosity to the activities of a black pickpocket on an uptown bus, the details of his niece Angela’s sex life, and his daughter’s lunacy as he does to the extraordinary theories of one Dr. V. Govinda Lal on the use we are to make of the moon now that we have reached it.
Beneath this novel’s comedy, sadness, shocking action, and superb character-drawing there runs a strain of speculation, both daring and serene, on the future of life on this planet—Mr. Sammler’s planet—and any other planets for which we may be destined.
Critics Review
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“An enduring testament and prophecy.”
Chicago Sun-Times
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“The most important writer in English in the second half of the twentieth century…Bellow’s oeuvre is both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary.”
Sunday Times (London)
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“What better narrator to handle Bellow’s complex characters, ideas, and luscious layering of words than AudioFile Golden Voice George Guidall?…Guidall portrays the septuagenarian Sammler as an observer of the human condition…Sammler’s encounter with a pickpocket, his anxiety about his daughter, his other familial concerns—Guidall recounts them all. But it’s Bellow’s language that resonates in his expert performance. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Details
- Author
- Saul Bellow
- Narrator
- George Guidall
- Duration
- 10 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9781982695057
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction
Synopsis
Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York’s Upper West Side, Mr. Sammler is attentive to everything, and appalled by nothing. He brings the same dispassionate curiosity to the activities of a black pickpocket on an uptown bus, the details of his niece Angela’s sex life, and his daughter’s lunacy as he does to the extraordinary theories of one Dr. V. Govinda Lal on the use we are to make of the moon now that we have reached it.Beneath this novel’s comedy, sadness, shocking action, and superb character-drawing there runs a strain of speculation, both daring and serene, on the future of life on this planet—Mr. Sammler’s planet—and any other planets for which we may be destined.
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