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 about triumph over the blackness of alcoholism, Sams in a Dry Season tracks Jason as he drowns in liquor and then, after several eye-opening experiences, puts down the bottle for good.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671755374
• ISBN13: 9780671755379
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"

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.