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4.0 out of 5 stars
Powerful Look at Longing, Loss, and Ethics,
By K.A.Goldberg (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Save the Tiger (Hardcover)
This easy-reading novel examines middle-aged longing, guilt, and a loss of ideals. Harry Stoner is an unethical businessman in 1970's Los Angeles who's small apparel company is in financial straits. Harry and his associate Phil Greene borrow money from loan sharks, use accounting tricks to avoid trouble, and routinely assign prostitutes to their top clients. Harry also lies to his wife and cheats on her, even though he still loves her and isn't really a skirt chaser. Harry rationalizes these actions with suprising ease, having long since abandoned his youthful ideals. Of course, Harry is suffering post-traumatic stress from World War II, including a crushing guilt at having survived that conflict when so many in his outfit perished. Well into middle age, Harry also mourns the loss of his New York youth, when the world of jazz and the old Brooklyn Dodgers seemed to represent a simpler and happier time. Many around Harry probably saw him as a part of the establishment, without sensing his bedeviled, rebellious manner.This book was adapted into an excellent-but-overlooked 1973 movie starring Jack Lemmon (who won Best Actor). The story has more sex and drugs than the film, and some vague parallels to "Death of A Salesman." Like the film, these pages deliver a well-crafted message on ethics, longing, and loss.
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