Mr. Sammler's planet.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Holocaust survivors -- Fiction; City and town life -- Fiction; Intellectuals -- Fiction; Jewish men -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: "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."