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Aurora Dawn (1947)

door Herman Wouk

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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.… (meer)
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Wouk gets a bit precious with his asides and "dear reader" interludes, but all the same, perhaps Tom Wolfe should have read this takedown of a nascent American materialism centered in the advertising and radio worlds of Manhattan before he wrote The Bonfire of the Vanities. Wouk succeeds in depicting the era without being grotesque, without expressing superiority to his characters, and with an admirable focus that Wolfe sorely lacked.

Wouk's achievement in decrying our tendency toward Success at the expense of the Soul and the Spirit, which, as the back cover promises, still resonates today, is all the more impressive for having been written during World War II, and published just in its aftermath, before the prosperous fifties were upon us, before the Me Generation unleashed itself, before the Dot-Commers revived it all one more time. ( )
  wearyhobo | Jun 22, 2020 |
St. Barts 2018 #4 - My first book by Wouk. It took a bit to get me going, but there was a charming, friendly banter between author and reader that i enjoyed.....for the most part. The authorial asides did build-up over time and often seemed a bit too wordy and philosophical....but at other times his sarcastic wit definitely made me laugh out loud.....the lightness of the story-telling was appealing, and the story was OK.....so a mixed bag. But what should one expect from a novel concerning a moral quandary? About advertising soap, no less! ( )
  jeffome | Jan 11, 2018 |
Inscribed to Mom by author at the book party given by Bubbie
  ajapt | Dec 30, 2018 |
$100.
  Brenada | Sep 13, 2015 |
$35.
  Brenada | Sep 13, 2015 |
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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.

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