Finished Fr 11/13/15
I had read this novel many years ago, and the reason I'm rereading it is that THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH is the January, 2016 selection for The Classic Book Club. I've got HERZOG and a couple of others to read before the meeting.
Set in NYC during the late 1960's
Elegantly dressed black man is a pickpocket on bus and notices that Mr. Sammler has observed him. He exposes himself to Sammler in the lobby of his apartment building. Near the end of the novel, he is attacked by Mr. Sammler's son in law.
Elya Gruner is a rich doctor who supports Sammler and his daughter. Sammler is a Polish jew and has lost his wife in the holocaust. Sammler was underneath a pile of bodies and assumed that he was also shot. Lost an eye- knocked out by Nazi.
Sammler covered the Six Day War in 1967 for a small magazine
He lives with Margotte; distant relative. She's talkative.
Wallace and Angela are Dr. Gruner's two adult children. Wallace is a genius, but never completes anything. Has a scheme to fly above rich houses and take pictures of their plants and flowers so that the owners' know what they have. (I could use this service on Westview).
Angela is blowsy and sexy. Part of the Andy Warhol crowd.
Shula is Sammler's daughter and she steals a copy of a manuscript written by a professor that is studying HG Wells's writings about Life On The Moon. Sammler knew Wells when he lived in London. Shula spent part of WWII in a Catholic convent. Sammler spent part of the war hiding in a cemetery.
Link to author on wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow
Link to novel at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Sammler%27s_Planet
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