Sams In A Dry Season

By Ivan Gold

Book Overview

Two decades after writing the acclaimed Nickel Miseries and Sick Friends, Ivan Gold has broken his silence and produced a novel which brings back the character Jason Sams. Combining fiction and memoir... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395522811
• ISBN13: 9780395522813
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended! - Deserves to be a film

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.