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Chargement... Aurora Dawn (1947)par Herman Wouk
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. St. Barts 2018 #4 - My first book by Wouk. It took a bit to get me going, but there was a charming, friendly banter between author and reader that i enjoyed.....for the most part. The authorial asides did build-up over time and often seemed a bit too wordy and philosophical....but at other times his sarcastic wit definitely made me laugh out loud.....the lightness of the story-telling was appealing, and the story was OK.....so a mixed bag. But what should one expect from a novel concerning a moral quandary? About advertising soap, no less! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The publication of 'Aurora Dawn' in 1947 immediately established Herman Wouk as a novelist of exceptional literary and historical significance. Today, Aurora Dawn's themes have grown still more relevant and, in the manner of all great fiction, its characters and ironies have only been sharpened by the passage of time. Wouk's raucous satire of Manhattan's high-power elite recounts the adventures of one Andrew Reale as he struggles toward fame and fortune in the early days of radio. On the quest for wealth and prestige, ambitious young Andrew finds himself face-to-face with his own devil's bargain: forced to choose between soul and salary, true love and a strategic romance, Wouk's riotous, endearing hero learns a timeless lesson about the high cost of success in America's most extravagant metropolis. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Wouk's achievement in decrying our tendency toward Success at the expense of the Soul and the Spirit, which, as the back cover promises, still resonates today, is all the more impressive for having been written during World War II, and published just in its aftermath, before the prosperous fifties were upon us, before the Me Generation unleashed itself, before the Dot-Commers revived it all one more time. ( )