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Title: Poor George: A Novel
by Paula Fox, Jonathan Lethem
ISBN: 0393321312
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date: February, 2001
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $13.00
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Average Customer Rating: 5

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Rating: 5
Summary: A Man's Agonizing Search for Meaning
Comment: Like Fox's masterpiece, Desperate Characters, the main character, George, is eviscerated from a lack of meaning in his life, in spite of his job as a teacher and his decent wife. A life devoted to provisionalism, prudence, hoarding, reason, the same kind of life embraced by the narrator in Melville's "Bartleby," proves to result in a spiritually bankrupt soul. George earnestly seeks in vain for meaning and in doing so the novel sheds light on the bleakness of provisionalism as the modernist philosophy which the American middle class championed so blindly in the 1960s, the era in which this novel is written. George may fail in his search for meaning, but the novel is a triumph of vigorous prose, muscular syntax, and an uncompromising, angry critique of the smug middle-class complacency that afflicts too many of us.

Rating: 5
Summary: Fox On The Run
Comment: Sentence for sentence, Paula Fox is the genuine article. This is the book you want to read on the subway, the commuter rail, in the coffee shop, your place of preference.

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