ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1964
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Herman Wouk - Aurora Dawn
Dell, 1964
224 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

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.

The title page reads `Aurora Dawn or, The True History of Andrew Reale. Containing a Faithful Account of the Great Riot. Together with the Complete Texts of Michael Wilde`s Oration and Father Stanfield`s Sermon.` ... Well- there you have it. A deliberate attempt to set a modern story (satirizing radio advertising and advertising bunkum generally -- plus making an undercut at the use of religion to pull sales), to set such a story in Victorian frames of expanded title heads, and rambling inconsequential. Frankly, I found it forced, artificial, and would excuse it chiefly as a satire on the satires -- a little something that would have to be kept in the air like a shuttlecock or fall of its own weight. I confess that for this reader at least it fell, kerplunk. However, that`s just my reaction to it. There are others- including its publishers- who have gone completely overboard about it. I like those publishers. I hate to disagree with them about one of their pets. (I do agree when they say that the book offers a problem of considerable dimensions.) Incidentally, if your customers ask whether it is like a certain other book on a like subject, you might say- `Points of resemblance. No dirt.`


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