This is a middle career book for Saul Bellow and the book before the book that probably propelled him into the conversation for the Nobel. They’re not exactly awarded for individual books, but certainly those internationally acclaimed books do have a lot of influence. I was sort of avoiding this one because I found it on a list of “The Most Conservative Books of All Time” a list by Conservative commentaters, and I didn’t really feel like dealing with that. It’s not Conservative, and while […]
Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Arthur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers.
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow