A review by habeasopus
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow

4.0

Brilliant. Mr. Sammler is a fantastic lens for American life, and New York life in particular, at a time when the continuance of such a state did not seem at all certain. The novel is poignant and dark, invoking the holocaust without becoming macabre. It’s also absurd, without becoming silly. If Mr. Sammler ever publishes a biography of HG Wells, you can be sure I would read that too!