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The Victim
- Author
- Saul Bellow
- Narrator
- Joe Barrett
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 19 January 2012
- Run Time
- 9 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex of New York City.
Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining his life. Unable to shake the stranger, Leventhal is led by his own self-doubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia and fear.
Critics Review
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“A kind of Dostoyevskian nightmare…written with unusual power and insight.”
New York Times
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“Anything by Bellow is worth a dozen other novels.”
Spectator (London)
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“The Victim confirmed the emergence of a new protagonist in American literature: modern, Jewish, as alienated from his surroundings as Kafka’s Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis.”
Boston Globe
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“The best novel to come out of America—or England—for a generation.”
New York Review of Books
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“A story of New York today—in general introspective, thought provoking, but with the focus on the idea rather than the people, who are little more than lay figures.”
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Details
- Author
- Saul Bellow
- Narrator
- Joe Barrett
- Duration
- 9 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 January 2012
- ISBN
- 9781481589369
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex of New York City.Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining his life. Unable to shake the stranger, Leventhal is led by his own self-doubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia and fear.
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