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Title: Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson, Jonathan Franzen ISBN: 1568582463 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid, purposeful, successful
Comment: It's always a bit challenging reviewing a book which spawned a memorable, but altogether different in feel, movie, as this book did. One is more apt to run into the movie on cable than to run across the book. Although I like the movie, I liked the book much, much better. The movie features sweeping plot turns, while the book is a matter of simple, credible steps. The theme is the aftermath of World War II, and recovering one's civic sense after dealing with it. In modern terms, it might be called the sequel to Saving Private Ryan, in which the captain returns to civilian life.
We pick up the plot in medias res--the hero has stumbled, uninspired through a few years of peacetime which hold none of the promise that seemed evident prior to the war. The author does a good job of plugging us into this man-and-his-family plot without either the soap suds or a preachy tone taking over. Nothing in the book is a particular revelation--there are no real gasps in the plot. But the enterprise is carried off in a competent, undecorated style which keeps one hooked right through to the end. There's a world of metaphor here, but these characters feel real, and the metaphoric situations that the hero and his family must endure to find a place in a changed world come off more live than memorex. A domestic drama can indeed be written without losing the reader or drenching the reader in soap.
This is one of those good rainy afternoon reads. It won't save your soul, but it might help you slog through another cloudy day.
Rating: 4
Summary: This A changing society
Comment: Tom Rath was a war veteran who lived in two different world, one before the war and another at the conclusion. I think that Sloan Wilson did an admirable job in creating a story that held together the readers train of thought, however, it was a book without a lot of depth. A major theme throughtout was to not be so cynical, beleive in yourself. On the issue of conformity, Tom Rath, the main character, finds that he is going to find happiness in things like family and time.., not fame and fortune. Overall, a good read.
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Title: The Organization Man by William H. Whyte, Joseph Nocera, Jenny Bell Whyte ISBN: 0812218191 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Summer Place by Sloan Wilson ISBN: 5557019367 Publisher: Books on Tape Pub. Date: 1958 List Price(USD): $56.00 |
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Title: Fences by August Wilson, Lloyd Richards ISBN: 0452264014 Publisher: New American Library Trade Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff ISBN: 0802136680 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Peyton Place: And Return to Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Grace Metallious ISBN: 0517204770 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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