Mr. Sammler's Planet

5 best books like Mr. Sammler's Planet (Saul Bellow): The 42nd Parallel, Call It Sleep, The Plains, Zuckerman Unbound, The Angel Esmeralda

The 42nd Parallel
AuthorJohn Dos Passos
ISBN0618056815
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world....
AuthorHenry Roth
ISBN0374522928
When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the...
AuthorGerald Murnane
ISBN1930974280
'Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.'--Teju Cole

'A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.'--Paris Review

'A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable novel.'--Shirley Hazzard

'Deeply mysterious yet grounded in familiar, everyday...
Zuckerman Unbound
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN0099477564
Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds himself accosted on all sides, the target of admonishers, advisers, would-be literary critics, and – worst of all – fans.

An...
AuthorDon DeLillo
ISBN1451655843
From one of the greatest writers of our time, a collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American culture.

From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and...
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