- Man-woman relationships, National security, Literature, Officials and employees
With this rollicking novel-hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity-one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.
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Classical in form, contemporary, relentless and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio, Little, Brown, Brand: Hachette Audio
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780759510692
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“We all have bad days, and Dr. Guy Carpenter awoke to rain drumming on gray windows, with a qualm in his gut about what this drab day might bring.”
Herman Wouk was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
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