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The Middle Of The Journey (Paperback, Main)
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The Middle Of The Journey (Paperback, Main)
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List price R622
Loot Price R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
You Save R105 (17%)
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Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel
Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter
ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy
era. "The Middle of the Journey" revolves around a political
turncoat and the anger his action awakens among a group of
intellectuals summering in Connecticut. The story, however, is less
concerned with the rights and wrongs of left and right than with an
absence of integrity at the very heart of the debate. Certainly the
hero, John Laskell, staging a slow recovery from the death of his
lover and a near-fatal illness of his own, comes to suspect that
the conflicts and commitments involved are little more than a
distraction from the real responsibilities, and terrors, of the
common world.
A detailed, sometimes slyly humorous, picture of the manners and
mores of the intelligentsia, as well as a work of surprising
tenderness and ultimately tragic import, "The Middle of the
Journey" is a novel of ideas whose quiet resonance has only grown
with time. This is a deeply troubling examination of America by one
of its greatest critics.
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