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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly recommended! - Deserves to be a film,
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This review is from: Sams in a Dry Season: Sams in a Dry Season (Paperback)
Ivan Gold's most recent novel is a haunting, elegaic, and also quite funny novel - a brave book, too, as Philip Roth callled it. It is indeed a story of triumph over alcoholism but without the "Lost Weekend" melodrama or contemporary cliches. More important, it is an engaging and painfully honest treatment of its hero's taking stock and taking control of his life. Consisting essentially of a series of vivid set-pieces - the opening encounter between Jason Sams and his English Department chair is especially brilliant - this book will stay with you for a long time. Its characters and scenes are memorable; its prose full of both play and grace.
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Sams In A Dry Season by Ivan Gold (Hardcover - September 21, 1990)
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